Thomas F. Burdick <tfb@fallingrocks.OCF.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
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| usenet@MartinPomije.eiomail.com (Martin Pomije) writes:
| > In "ANSI Common Lisp" Paul Graham uses #\  for the space character...
...
| ...if you find yourself thinking, "that looks a little too concise,
| almost cryptically so," it probably is.
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Here's my ultimate example of excessively cryptic (and dangerous) style:

	> (defmacro \  (args &body body)
	    `(lambda ,args ,@body))
	| |
	>

Now you can write all kinds of concise[1] anonynmous functions:

	> (mapcar (\  (x) (* x 3)) '(1 2 3))
	(3 6 9)
	> (position 4 '(5 6 7 8) :test (\  (x y) (= x (- y 3))))
	2
	> 

;-}  ;-}


-Rob

[1] Well, just remember to type *two* spaces after the backslash...

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