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> if your macros only rely on non-exported symbols from your package and symbols in the CL package, then you are free from any hygiene problems that aren't caused by code that is clearly bad locally

Not quite true, recursive macro invocations that create bindings can step on themselves and force you to use GENSYM, even if your criteria are satisfied.




The "interesting" macro hygiene problems can't be solved with GENSYM. I was assuming it was understood that proper macros should use GENSYM for generated bindings.




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