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The SF Perl Raku Study Group, 03/23 at 1pm PST

Doug Hoyte, "Let Over Lambda-- 50 Years of Lisp" (2008):
  "It must also be pointed out that aif and alambda, like all anaphoric
  macros, violate lexical transparency. A fashionable way of saying this
  is currently to say that they are unhygienic macros. That is, like a
  good number of macros in this book, they invisibly introduce lexical
  bindings and thus cannot be created with macro systems that strictly
  enforce hygiene. Even the vast majority of Scheme systems, the
  platform that has experimented the most with hygiene, provide
  unhygienic defmacro-style macros-presumably because not even Scheme
  implementors take hygiene very seriously. Like training wheels on a
  bicycle, hygiene systems are for the most part toys that should be
  discarded after even a modest level of skill has been acquired."
  https://letoverlambda.com/index.cl/guest/chap6.html
The Raku Study Group
March 23, 2025  1pm in California, 8pm in the UK
An informal meeting: drop by when you can, show us what you've got,
ask and answer questions, or just listen and lurk.
Perl and programming in general are fair game, along with Raku,
Zoom meeting link:
  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81750169963?pwd=SY3gIr63jZtsXVgW4PDXwbOdLavt1c.1
Passcode: 4RakuRoll

• The SF Perl Raku Study Group, 03/23 at 1pm PST by Joseph Brenner