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Conference on LISP and Functional Programming archive
Proceedings of the 1988 ACM conference on LISP and functional programming table of contents

Snowbird, Utah, United States

Pages: 86 - 95

Year of Publication: 1988

ISBN:0-89791-273-X

Authors

Alan Bawden	Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Jonathan Rees	Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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SIGACT: ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory
SIGART: ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence
SIGPLAN: ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

In this paper we describe syntactic closures. Syntactic closures address the scoping problems that arise when writing macros. We discuss some issues raised by introducing syntactic closures into the macro expansion interface, and we compare syntactic closures with other approaches. Included is a complete implementation.

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