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Re:Ask HN: How to compose two mapping functions into a third? by silverlake on Thursday December 11, 2008 @11:22AM (#394406)
You can implement the local transformations for short cut deforestation with CL macros. Then you can easily reuse the technique everywhere. Look up Andy Gill's paper from 1993.
Re:Ask HN: How to compose two mapping functions into a third? by gruseom on Thursday December 11, 2008 @11:42AM (#394429)
Google brings up a few papers from around that time. The closest match looks like "A short cut to deforestation" - is that the one you mean?

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=165214