From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Ren=C3=A9_Kyllingstad?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clojure-like syntactic sugar for an anonymous function literal Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:35:40 +0100 Message-ID: References: <54C05269.7050602@dancol.org> <87oaprfa3t.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Rene@Kyllingstad.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1421919371 11812 80.91.229.3 (22 Jan 2015 09:36:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:36:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Daniel Colascione , Oleh , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 22 10:36:09 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YEEBK-0003Zi-L4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:36:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51991 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEEBJ-0007Z8-Pg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 04:36:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41085) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEEB5-0007Yg-2l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 04:35:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEEB4-0005Cy-59 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 04:35:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mail1.g4.pair.com ([66.39.3.119]:55413) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEEAy-0005AC-MU; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 04:35:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-ob0-f170.google.com (mail-ob0-f170.google.com [209.85.214.170]) by mail1.g4.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5F25D41A84; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 04:35:41 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by mail-ob0-f170.google.com with SMTP id wp4so485405obc.1; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 01:35:40 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.182.94.133 with SMTP id dc5mr293963obb.32.1421919340867; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 01:35:40 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.182.2.130 with HTTP; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 01:35:40 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87oaprfa3t.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 9.x X-Received-From: 66.39.3.119 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:181566 Archived-At: On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:17 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > That does not mean that I am convinced we want or need short-lambda. Both C++ and Java have "recently" added a succinct syntax for their equiv= alents. Given the amount of work it is to add features to either platform, quite a few people deemed it useful there. At least most peoples .emacs will look a bit tidier with a succinct anonymous lambda as an argument to add-hook :) The syntax proposed by OP is the neatest so far, but any succinct syntax will probably be ok.