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6 points by Jekyll 5914 days ago | link | parent

Kenny's right.

Pattern matching is completely orthogonal to hygiene.

You could add in another operator, %, that performs exactly the same as ` but hygienically. Personally I'd settle for just being able embed procedures in code trees like you can in common lisp. Being able to write.

  (let this (fn (x) x)
     (mac na-na-na(y)
      `(,this ,y))) ;Can't touch "this". It's lexically bound.
Allows you to fake hygiene in the common cases where it's needed most often.