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

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

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.