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

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Daniel Colascione writes:
 > On 01/21/2015 01:38 PM, Oleh wrote:
 > > Hi all,
 > > 
 > > This is my first attempt of modifying the C source of Emacs.
 > > The goal is to add a new reader syntax:
 > > 
 > >     #(foo bar) should translate to (short-lambda (foo bar))
 > 
 > Thanks, but I'd strongly prefer not to baking this syntax into the elisp
 > reader.

XEmacs is -1 on this change for the same reasons Daniel gives.

I also don't like it because the convention is to use "#c" (where c is
some character) for new syntax (eg, XEmacs uses #r"" for "rawstring
syntax", where the benefit is huge because of the unreadability of
regexps in ordinary strings).