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1 point by shiro 6163 days ago | link | parent

I still believe you are talking different things. My "expectation" is derived from these axioms:

* Macro is a local source-code transformation that replaces macro call with the macro definition (with some hygienic magic, if you prefer).

* The language adopts applicative order.

If you want redefining foo to affect the value of the closed variable 'x', then either you have a non-trivial definition of macros (macro transformation requires transformation of code surrounding the macro call) or you are adopting different evaluation semantics (like x is bound by call-by-name).

Note that your problem occurs even foo is a procedure. It's not a macro problem. It's a problem of semantics of closed variables.