From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clojure-like syntactic sugar for an anonymous function literal Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 23:21:23 +0900 Message-ID: <874mrivqu4.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <54C05269.7050602@dancol.org> <87oaprfa3t.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <877fwfunnz.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87a91bf76y.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1421936509 10398 80.91.229.3 (22 Jan 2015 14:21:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 14:21:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 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 15:21:49 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 1YEIdo-0002OE-Jh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 15:21:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53491 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEIdn-0001Yk-Vz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:21:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37474) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEIdZ-0001YR-4q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:21:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEIdY-0007ie-8n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:21:33 -0500 Original-Received: from shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.161]:48794) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEIdS-0007hk-EI; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:21:26 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EDE2D1C38E5; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 23:21:23 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CB2271A2D18; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 23:21:23 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <87a91bf76y.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" acf1c26e3019 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.161 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:181599 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: > "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > > Personally, I don't see a huge advantage to anonymous functions > > anyway, not even in an interactive repl, > > They are useful for calculated bindings. Of course.[1] I didn't mean anonymous functions were useless, I meant in the contexts so far mentioned. Footnotes: [1] ISTM that that goes without saying, given that Lisp having data and code representations using the same syntax is advertised as an advantage.