macroexpand and syntax-quote

[bentav]

Common Lisp:

(defmacro foo ()
  `(defmacro bar ()
    `(baz)))

(macroexpand-1 '(foo))

=> (DEFMACRO BAR () `(BAZ))

Clojure:

(defmacro foo []
  `(defmacro bar []
    `(baz)))

(macroexpand-1 '(foo))

=> (clojure.core/defmacro user/bar [] (clojure.core/seq (clojure.core/concat (clojure.core/list (quote user/baz)))))

Looks awful. Is it possible to do something about that?

[Gary Verhaegen]

This is very much by design. Clojure is somewhere between Common Lisp and Scheme in terms of macro hygiene.

Being compatible with Common Lisp is explicitly not a goal for Clojure. Watch out for similarly named functions with different behavior too.

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