Re: [PATCH] Clojure-like syntactic sugar for an anonymous function literal

[René Kyllingstad]

On Thursday, January 22, 2015, Daniel Colascione <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 01/21/2015 01:38 PM, Oleh wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This is my first attempt of modifying the C source of Emacs.
> > The goal is to add a new reader syntax:
> >
> >     #(foo bar) should translate to (short-lambda (foo bar))
>
> Thanks, but I'd strongly prefer not to baking this syntax into the elisp
> reader. IME, we tend not to use anonymous lambas enough to matter.

This syntax makes anonymous lambdas dramatically more attractive IMHO,
so I would not use current usage as an argument against it.


-- René