:Re: ILC2005: McCarthy denounces Common Lisp, "Lisp", XML, and Rahul

[Robert L.]

Antonio Menezes Leitao wrote:

> But I'm starting to use something very similar in permanent code...
>
> For simple one-arg lambdas, I use this:
>
> (defmacro << (&body body)
> `#'(lambda (<<)
> (declare (ignorable <<))
> ,@body))
>
> Your example becomes:
>
> (mapcar (<< (cons << (+ 32 (* 9/5 <<)))) (iota 11 0 10))

MatzLisp (Ruby):

0.step(100,10).map{|x| [x, x*9/5+32]}

[[0, 32], [10, 50], [20, 68], [30, 86], [40, 104], [50, 122],
[60, 140], [70, 158], [80, 176], [90, 194], [100, 212]]


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