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Hygienic

//haɪˈd͡ʒiːnɪk// adj, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to hygiene; clean, sanitary, free of disease.
  2. 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. 1
    tending to promote or preserve health wordnet

Etymology

From French hygiénique. Displaced earlier hygienal.

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