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Re:John Carmack working on Scheme as a VR scripting language by NhanH on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @04:57PM (#9815101)
Scheme macro is hygienic, which make certain type of macro impossible to be done (those that capture itself). Also depend on who you ask, hygienic macro is slightly more annoying to use.
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Re:John Carmack working on Scheme as a VR scripting language by kenko on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @05:04PM (#9815146)
syntax-rules macros can break hygiene: http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/macros.html#dirty-macros
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