Hygienic
/haɪˈd͡ʒiːnɪk/ adj, slang
adj, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Pertaining to hygiene; clean, sanitary, free of disease.
- 2 Whose expansion is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers. slang
"Of course, anyone with a Scheme background is probably howling at this point because they have a hygienic macro system that makes unintended variable capture impossible. Allowing variable capture when we really, really want it makes Clojure's macro system technically more dangerous than hygienic systems."
Adjective
- 1 tending to promote or preserve health wordnet
Example
More examples"That doesn't seem very hygienic."
Etymology
From French hygiénique. Displaced earlier hygienal.