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		Tenobrus on Aug 2, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hy – A Lisp-flavored Python I think the problem is, then constructs such as yield (the behavior of which depends on the current function scope), would no longer work correctly.

nerdponx on Aug 2, 2017 [–]

Couldn't `let` be a compile-time expansion using `gensym` or some other symbol mangling? Or is that what the contrib macro does?

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