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In Clojure, you need to use gensym to create symbols for internal use in your macros to keep them hygienic. However, sometimes you need to use the same symbol in nested syntax-quotes. For example, if I want to bind a value to a symbol with let and print it three times in an unrolled loop, I'd do `(let [x# 1] ~@(repeat 3 `(println x#))) But that would produce (clojure.core/let [x__2__auto__ 1] (clojure.core/println x__1__auto__) (clojure.core/println x__1__auto__) (clojure.core/println x__1__auto__)) x# generates a different symbol in the let form than in the println forms nested within it - because they were created from different syntax-quotes. To solve it, I can generate the symbol beforehand and inject it to the syntax-quotes: (let [x (gensym)] `(let [~x 1] ~@(repeat 3 `(println ~x))) ) This will produce the correct result, with the same symbol everywhere needed: (clojure.core/let [G__7 1] (clojure.core/println G__7) (clojure.core/println G__7) (clojure.core/println G__7)) Now, while it does produce the right result, the code itself looks ugly and verbose. I don't like having to "declare" a symbol, and the injection syntax makes it look like it came from outside the macro, or calculated somewhere within in it. I want to be able to use the auto-gensym syntax, which makes it clear that those are macro-internal symbols. So, is there any way to use auto-gensym with nested syntax-quotes and make them produce the same symbol?

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