Avoiding resolving symbols within a local scope? about backtick HOT 2 CLOSED

Backtick is an implementation of syntax-quote, which operates at the reader level. While Clojure's syntax-quote does leverage knowledge of the dynamic environment (namespaces, vars, etc), it does not have any notion of lexical scope or any high-level understanding of Clojure forms. When you're templating code, the normal advice for writing macros applies: Use gensyms:

`(let [tempo# 1] (+ 1 tempo#))

But really, you probably don't want syntax-quote or backtick at all for this use case. Instead, use the normal reader, wrap with #(list 'fn [] %) and use a combination of in-ns/use/eval.

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That makes sense. I hadn't thought of wrapping the code in an anonymous function and using in-ns/eval -- will give that a try. Thanks!

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