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		oconnore on March 26, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lambda’s New Coat: 21st century syntactic Mexps Common Lisp macros allow the programmer to capture variables if they desire and/or are ignorant of the semantics of the language. Sometimes this is nice, like in the anaphora package. Defining hygienic macros is not hard though.

spacemanaki on March 26, 2011 [–]

That's basically what I thought. I misread the OP to mean that s-expressions alone guaranteed hygienic macros.

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