And a fine argument that is. The need for hygenic macros is overstated.
What I don't see is why you can't provide both? It's not confusing to provide both, it's not difficult to provide both. There are that class of macros you write where variable capture is tedious to deal with manually, so why not save some code and make a correct implementation of hygenic macros just so that people who need them don't have to re-implement them?
I just counted up again and my code base shows 613 defmacro occurences and only 111 gensym occurences and I do not even use a with-gensyms macro, so I am not sold on the need. Then again, I do strive for the functional thang and try not even to use let. btw, I am not fastidious generally but (I guess cuz it is so easy) I never skip on a gensym -- I am definitely of the school that believes programming is hard enough as it is. :)
