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Unfortunately anonymous function literals won't be added to Emacs anytime soon. The arguments as to why we would like to have that has been layed out convincingly but the proposal has been rejected anyway.
Several packages exist that implement anonymous function literals, but until now they all either are waiting for a patch to the C part be merged into Emacs, or they depart too far from the ideal syntax.
In a stroke of luck I discovered a loophole that allows us to have almost the syntax that we want without having to convince anyone.
$(foo %) is what I would have used if it were up to me.
#(foo %) works just as well for me.
##(foo %) is similar enough to that.
(##foo %) is the loophole that I discovered.
Even though there is no space between the second #
and foo
, this
last form is read as a list with three arguments (## foo %)
and it
is also indented the way we want!
(##foo %
bar)
This is good enough for me, but with a bit of font-lock trickery, we can even get it to be display like this:
##(foo %
bar)
This is completely optional and you have to opt-in by enabling
llama-mode
(or the global variant global-llama-mode
).
An unfortunate edge-case exists that you have to be aware off; if no argument is placed on the same line as the function, then Emacs does not indent as we would want it too:
(##foo ##(foo
bar) which llama-mode displays as bar)
I recommend that in this case you simply write this instead:
(## foo ##( foo
bar) which llama-mode displays as bar)
It is my hope that this package helps to eventually get similar syntax into Emacs itself, by demonstrating that this is useful and that people want to use it.
Also see the announcement.
Also see l
, my second attempt at
faking such syntax.