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

In article <8763wvd6p6.fsf@xxxxxxxxx>,
Joost Diepenmaat <joost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.

"fn" is only two keystrokes too, and IMHO looks a lot better (and is
much more reminiscent of "function") than /. (which really ought to be
..\ if you want it to look like a lambda).

rg
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