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

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Oleh writes:

 > How is `dash' better?

It's not in XEmacs core, so I don't have to look at it.

The proposed "short-lambda" is pure sugar and adds zero expressiveness
to the language.  Furthermore, in Emacsen it would be subject to
substantial abuse (eg, in hooks where anonymous functions are a bad
idea).