[Gardeners] Gardeners Digest, Vol 7, Issue 4

William Bland doctorbill.news at gmail.com
Sun Jun 4 16:40:36 CDT 2006


On 6/4/06, gardeners-request at lispniks.com
<gardeners-request at lispniks.com> wrote:

> Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 03:01:05 +0300
> From: Nikodemus Siivola <nikodemus at random-state.net>
> Subject: Re: [Gardeners] Monthly progress report: Lisp FAQ
> To: gardeners at lispniks.com
>
> "Vijay Lakshminarayanan" <liyer.vijay at gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> > * What are "hygenic" macros?
>
> I'm not a newbie, so I'm probably disqualified -- but why talk about hygienic
> macros in a Common Lisp FAQ?
>

Perhaps a better question for the FAQ would be "Why doesn't Common
Lisp have/need/want hygienic macros?"

Cheers,
Bill.
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