Mathematica has had that syntax since the 1990's at least. Plus there's good old q's implicit argument naming of x, y, z when you didn't give the args explicit

Mathematica has had that syntax since the 1990's at least. Plus there's good old q's implicit argument naming of x, y, z when you didn't give the args explicit names: each[{2*x}] 1 2 3 1 2 3 {x*y}/: 4 5 6