> On Nov 20, 2010, at 6:58 PM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > >> Hygiene is a technical term. The idea is roughly that >> the __macro system__ (as a whole) should respect the >> lexical structure of your program.
It is somewhat unfortunate that the name `hygiene' has caught on here. It really ought to be called `lexical scoping' (with the understanding that macros have no special permission to violate lexical scope any more than lambda bindings do). On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:08 AM, John Clements <cleme...@brinckerhoff.org> wrote: > > then *what word* should we use to describe macros that violate transparency? > "non-transparent"? I've seen `non-hygienic'. I'd vote for `broken'. -- ~jrm _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
