p.s. I just wrote:
+---------------
| I tend to prefer the Scheme-style default for the non-list arg case:
| (defmacro \\ (args &body body)
|   `(lambda ,(if (listp args) args (list '&rest args)) ,@body))
+---------------

I forgot to mention that I actually prefer ML's name "FN" for a
LAMBDA abbreviation, since it's the same number of keystrokes as "\\"
but doesn't print weirdly:
  
    > (defmacro fn (args &body body)
        `(lambda ,(if (listp args) args (list '&rest args)) ,@body))

    FN
    > (mapcar (fn (x) (+ 3 x)) '(3 4 5))

    (6 7 8)
    > 


-Rob

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