When is it appropriate to use generated symbols(varname#) in clojure? What are the specific examples?
When is it appropriate to use generated symbols(varname#) in clojure? What are the specific
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When is it appropriate to use generated symbols(varname#) in clojure? What are the specific examples?
They are mostly used in macros so that the symbols you defined in macro doesn’t conflict with the symbols that are defined in the same lexical scope when the macro is called. Using auto generated symbol would allow to avoid this kind of conflict (this concept is AKA hygienic macros).