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

[Drew Adams]

> > 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.

+1 on all accounts, but especially for a CL-style reader-macro facility.