Feature request: anaphoric map[car/can] etc, remove-if etc

[fourier]

Feature request: anaphoric map[car/can] etc, remove-if etc

[tokenrove]

Interesting suggestion! I would prefer not to put this in anaphora and instead suggest the use of general lambda reader macros, for example: https://common-lisp.net/project/bese/docs/arnesi/html/api/function_005FIT.BESE.ARNESI_003A_003ASHARPL-READER.html
I know there are a few variants of this idea out there and perhaps one of them suits you.

I prefer this because it avoids cluttering anaphora with an additional macro for every imaginable one-argument lambda function (for example, what about the :key arguments on many sequence functions?). But if you can demonstrate a really compelling case where amapcar is definitively better than something like (mapcar #L(+ it 1) '(1 2 3)), please reopen this.

Thanks!

[fourier]

One counter example for usage of reader macros is what they are providing problems if different packages provide the same reader macro prefix (like this #L ), also doesn't allow sexp-parsing tools (like code coverage in LispWorks) to do their job.
As for functions, probably the most used better to be implemented. As an example I can refer to "It" in Kotlin programming language where it is used really conveniently: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/lambdas.html#it-implicit-name-of-a-single-parameter

[tokenrove]

These are good points, although I don't feel they're that compelling (use named-readtables to manage many readtables, etc). However I'm just some guy. If you want to do this, feel free to fork anaphora.