Re: Paul Graham's Arc is released today... what is the long term impact?

rpw3@xxxxxxxx (Rob Warnock) writes:

But here's a really twisted one for those with "dumb" terminals:
Instead of using FN to abbreviate LAMBDA, we can use /. which
kinda looks like a lambda is you squint: ;-}

> (defmacro /. (args &body body) `(lambda ,args ,@body))

/.
> (mapcar (/. (x) (* 3 x)) (iota 5))

I like that; it's short, it looks kinda nice and it's only 2 keystrokes.

Joost.
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