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From: bard@brigid.cs.cornell.edu (Bard Bloom)
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Subject: Re: This year's version of 1char.el
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Date: 14 Jul 90 15:18:34 GMT
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> Lemme guess, "f:l" means this:
> 
> (defmacro f:l (args &rest body)
>   (list 'function (cons 'lambda (cons args body))))
> 

Yes indeed.  It's a truly obscure mnemonic, but I remembered it from UCI Lisp
a good many years after my two-month usage of UCI Lisp -- probably as a good
example of a truly obscure mnemonic.

I recently posted a version which defined it.

-- Bard