Hygienic macros (was: do...until wisdom needed...)

Brett g Porter BgPorter at NOartlogicSPAM.com
Tue Apr 17 21:11:00 EDT 2001


> The problem with non-hygienic macros is that variable names used by the
> macro implementation can conflict with variable names that are passed
> into the macro.  Hygienic macros solve this problem by putting the
> variables in different namespaces.
>
> Hope this helps.
Yep -- thanks!






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