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: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:17:51 +0900 Message-ID: <87y4outhvk.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <54C05269.7050602@dancol.org> <87oaprfa3t.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <877fwfunnz.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <873872vq5v.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1421975886 12282 80.91.229.3 (23 Jan 2015 01:18:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 01:18:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Oleh , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 23 02:18:05 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 1YESsp-0005N2-Ol for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 02:17:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56717 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YESso-00059P-UX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 20:17:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46640) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YESsm-00059K-6p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 20:17:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YESsj-0001TC-2C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 20:17:56 -0500 Original-Received: from shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.161]:33687) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YESsi-0001RK-P1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 20:17:52 -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 82D631C3889; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:17:51 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5D6BF1A2D18; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 10:17:51 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: 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:181645 Archived-At: Artur Malabarba writes: > > 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). > > Are they more subject than a full lambda? Technically, no, psychologically, maybe. Certainly no less.