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		projectileboy on Nov 10, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Nature of Lisp You can do cool stuff with unhygienic macros, however, like anaphoric macros. Interested readers should check out On Lisp by Paul Graham, as well as Let Over Lambda by Doug Hoyte.

jon6 on Nov 10, 2012 | [–]

You can still do anaphoric macros with hygienic macros.

http://blog.racket-lang.org/2008/02/dirty-looking-hygiene.ht...

<edit> And http://blog.racket-lang.org/2011/04/writing-syntax-case-macr...

brudgers on Nov 10, 2012 | [–]

[Most of] Let Over Lambda as free HTML: http://letoverlambda.com/textmode.cl/guest/toc

Graham's On Lisp as free PDF: http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/paulgraham/onlisp.pdf

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