Syntactic closure

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In computer science, syntactic closures are an implementation strategy for a hygienic macro system. The term pertains to the Scheme programming language. [1]

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.

References

  1. ↑ Hanson, Chris (November 9, 1991). "A Syntactic Closures Macro Facility". CSAIL. MIT. Retrieved February 24, 2021.


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