Depending on how frequent are complex equations in your code, you could make a macro for it, and write it e.g. like this: (math 5 * f (x + 2)) I might be te

Depending on how frequent are complex equations in your code, you could make a macro for it, and write it e.g. like this: (math 5 * f (x + 2)) I might be tempted to do so if I frequently encountered math expressions of depth 3 or more, which in my short Lisp career I didn't. Also, I would probably rewrite the expression as: (* 5 (f (+ x 2))) to make it easier to read by putting the simple operand first; or in case of two difficult operands I would use formatting: (* (f (+ x 2)) (g (+ x 3))) Note that a good editor would check that the parentheses match the formatting, so I wouldn't really count that 3 closing parentheses are needed in the last line; they would be inserted automatically.