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I am particularly amused by this guy's ranting about hygiene and macros. I have written quite a bit of lisp, and debugged plenty of macros, and once you have so
by kmcgivney 17y ago
I am particularly amused by this guy's ranting about hygiene and macros. I have written quite a bit of lisp, and debugged plenty of macros, and once you have some experience with gensyms you really don't look back and wish there was a hygienic system.
- varjag 17y agoHygienic macros are a bigger deal in Scheme, where everything is conflated into single namespace (you know, the land of LST). His rant about macros and namespaces is a good hint he didn't practice Lisp that much.