In computer science, syntactic closures are an implementation strategy for a hygienic macro system.
The term pertains to the Scheme programming language.
[1] When a syntactic closure is used the arguments to a macro call are enclosed in the current environment, such that they cannot inadvertently reference bindings introduced by the macro itself.
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