backtick

Why does lack of hygenic macros matter? You can go from basic macros to Clojure's syntax-quote (quasiquote with auto gensyms for certain reader-defined forms) in 100 lines of code[1]. I've listed a few other implementations of the clojure-style of quasiquote plus auto-gensym, but there are a ton of them floating around the web for almost every lisp you can think of. [1] As a clojure library - https://github.com/brandonbloom/backtick/blob/master/src/bac... (although you have to rewrite lines 51-56 to use explicit gensyms in a let instead of using the internal syntax-quote so that it bootstraps cleanly). [2] Using the alternate Clojure reader - https://github.com/clojure/tools.reader/blob/master/src/main... [3] Using Hylang - https://github.com/hylang/hy/blob/master/hy/core/macros.hy#L...

Hence this project: https://github.com/brandonbloom/backtick