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, syntactic closures are an implementation strategy for a hygienic macro system. The term pertains to the Scheme programming language. When a syntactic closure is used the arguments to a macro call are enclosed in the current environment, such that they cannot inadvertently reference bindings introduced by the macro itself.

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Syntactic exposures - A Lexically-Scoped Macro Facility for Extensible Compilerssyntactic closures at Schemewiki
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