In Clojure, you need to use gensym to create symbols for internal use in your macros to keep them hygienic. However, sometimes you need to use the same symbol in nested syntax-quotes. For example, ...

I heard some of my classmates talking about how they used the function gensym for that, I asked them what it did and even checked up online but I literally can't understand what this function does ...

I'm using Gensim Doc2Vec model, trying to cluster portions of a customer support conversations. My goal is to give the support team an auto response suggestions. Figure 1: shows a sample conversat...

I want to test a macro that uses gensyms. For example, if I want to test this: (defmacro m1 [x f] `(let [x# ~x] (~f x#))) I can use macro-expansion... (macroexpand-1 '(m1 2 inc)) ...to get...

There is something I can't understand about Common lisp. Assume I'm writing a macro similar to this: (defmacro test-macro () (let ((result (gensym))) `(let ((,result 1)) (print (incf ,result...

I'm reading/working through Practical Common Lisp. I'm on the chapter about building a test framework in Lisp. I have the function "test-+" implemented as below, and it works: (defun test-+ () (...