Re: Lark - A surface syntax for Common Lisp

"Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at cley dot com)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.lispworks.general
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On 15 Feb 2026, at 17:46, David McClain <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Rust worries way to much about “memory safety”, and Racket worries way too much about "variable capture".

To be fair I think the hygiene thing is real.  But the interesting part of it that isn't solved in CL (I think of this as 'upward hygiene', where a macro relies on some name meaning what it thinks it means and it doesn't) is soluble by placing restrictions on non-CL packages which are similar to those on the CL package.  That would even be fairly easy to implement, so a compiler would complain about code which violated the restrictions.  Failing that you just document the restrictions.

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