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in the current environment, such that they cannot inadvertently reference bindings introduced by the macro itself.

References

External links

* tp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/garbage/carl-msthesis.ps Syntactic exposures - A Lexically-Scoped Macro Facility for Extensible Compilersbr>syntactic closures at Schemewiki
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