[Gardeners] Monthly progress report: Lisp FAQ

Vijay Lakshminarayanan liyer.vijay at gmail.com
Sat Jun 3 18:14:10 CDT 2006


On 6/3/06, Reno Functional Language Users Group <rflug05 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Also,
> > * What are "hygenic" macros?
>
> from the wikipedia:
>
> "Hygienic macros are macros whose expansion is guaranteed not to cause
> collisions with existing symbol definitions. They are a feature of
> programming languages such as Scheme and Dylan."

Thank you.  Howerver, I had meant that it be more suitable as a
question for the FAQ since I have read that wikipedia article before.

Thanks
Vijay Lakshminarayanan


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