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hygienic macro expansion: a standalone construct

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hygienic macroexpansion1 CONSTRUCTHygienic macro expansionKOHLBECKER · PROGRAMMING

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macro expansion that prevents identifiers introduced by a macro from accidentally capturing or being captured by identifiers at the use site.

In programming languages, hygienic macro expansion refers to macro expansion that prevents identifiers introduced by a macro from accidentally capturing or being captured by identifiers at the use site. This meaning comes from Kohlbecker (1986) in Proceedings of the 1986 ACM conference on LISP and functional programming - LFP '86.[1]

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  1. Kohlbecker, E., Friedman, D. P., Felleisen, M., & Duba, B. (1986). Hygienic macro expansion. Proceedings of the 1986 ACM conference on LISP and functional programming - LFP '86. https://doi.org/10.1145/319838.319859

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