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CLers will be along to tell you that macro bugs rarely happen in CL because of separate function and variable namespaces, and if they do you can always use gensyms.

CL is the "worse is better" of "the right thing".




As a CLer, I have never understood the draw of hygienic macros. They solve what looks like a non-problem, straining mightily to achieve little of actual value.




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