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. Clojure is idiomatically pure-functional; we're not. I'd be more receptive to a generalized, CL-style reader-macro facility. You could then use that to implement this syntax, but locally.