Re: Shorter lambda expressions

[Eli Barzilay]

> One related thing I sometimes lack is:
>=20
>   (define-syntax-rule (thunk exp ...)
>     (lambda () exp ...))
>=20
> (Found in Racket, notably.)

IMO, it's much more useful to have `λ', together with an Emacs hack
that makes it easy to type.  In the last few years I even switched to
omitting the space in some simple cases, so I use

    (λ() (blah)
         (blah)
         (blah))

which is even shorter than `thunk'.  Also, there's no confusion
between `thunk' and `thunk*' (accepts any number of arguments) which
some people prefer.


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