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2 points by almkglor 5837 days ago | link | parent

That is about it. ^^ However my current implementation uses tables as environments for the function. Keys in the table are symbols for the variable names in that environment. A "parent" string key accesses the environment's parent.

The global environment is shadowed by a table; when this table is accessed, if a table entry does not exist, we look it up in the real environment using 'eval (!!) and retain a copy. This allows the macro to use stuff like 'map.

However there is still a leak here: if the real global-level environment has a function that modifies a global, it will modify a different global variable from the one that is visible to the macro. This shouldn't happen anyway: we should really avoid using globals in utility functions ^^.