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Vinony

hygienic

adjective

  1. not disease-spreading
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /haɪˈd͡ʒiːnɪk/ / /haɪˈd͡ʒɛnɪk/ / /hʌɪd͡ʒɪˈɛnɪk/

adj

Etymology: From French hygiénique. Displaced earlier hygienal.

  1. Pertaining to hygiene; clean, sanitary, free of disease.
  2. Whose expansion is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.

    “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.”