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by thewakalix 1739 days ago
I can’t believe the canonical anonymous function notation is omitted:

    (lambda (x) (f x))
On the other hand, this is a discussion about syntax, and Lisp is the “syntaxless” language…
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How is that canonical? λ x . f x is the original syntax of Church, Lisp came around decades later.
Canonical from a programming languages perspective.