Clojure[0] and Anarki[1] (public fork of Arc) both provide a way to do this (with more than one argument as well). They both have syntax for a "literal function

Clojure[0] and Anarki[1] (public fork of Arc) both provide a way to do this (with more than one argument as well). They both have syntax for a "literal function". Your second example would become: Arc/Anarki: [format-names2 "John" _ "Jones"] which expands to (fn (_) (format-names2 "John" _ "Jones")) Clojure: #(format-names2 "John" % "Jones") which expands to (fn (%) (format names2 "John" % "Jones")) Then for a function of two arguments that curried the middle one: Anarki: [format-names2 _1 "Paul" _2] which expands to (fn (_1 _2) (format-names2 _1 "Paul" _2)) Clojure: #(format-names2 %1 "Paul" %2) which expands to (fn [%1 %2] (format-names2 %1 "Paul" %2)) [0] http://clojure.org/reader http://clojure.org/reader [1] https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/master/CHANGES/make-br-fn https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/master/CHANGES/ma...