In Scheme there is the "cut" macro: (cut + 2 <>) GNU Guile specifically has a curried definition syntax: (define ((foo x) y) (list x y)) https

In Scheme there is the "cut" macro: (cut + 2 <>) GNU Guile specifically has a curried definition syntax: (define ((foo x) y) (list x y)) https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Curried-Definitions.html https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Curried-... Or you can bind "lambda" to another, shorter identifier. But anyway, Lisp's goal isn't to be extremely terse, so it doesn't bother me.