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Hygienic macros #76

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jgrosso opened this issue Nov 5, 2019 · 1 comment
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Hygienic macros #76

jgrosso opened this issue Nov 5, 2019 · 1 comment
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improvement Adding a new feature, improving an existing feature, etc. macro expansion Anything related to Axel macro expansion. proposal Ideas for future improvement, that aren't (yet) concretely agreed upon.

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jgrosso commented Nov 5, 2019 •
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Currently, the macro system is unhygienic (a la Common Lisp and Clojure). Should it be made hygienic (a la Scheme and Racket)?

There are papers by the Scheme team that describe how to implement a hygienic macro system, which we should refer to if/when we tackle this.
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jgrosso commented Apr 24, 2020

See https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/g6ociz/haskells_semantics_plus_lisps_macros_meet_axel_a/foef6ne/.

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