It's an expression of enthusiasm, don't take it so seriously.

min* is like min but takes a list, it's not built in. Yes, I know about apply, I still prefer min* to (apply min) in certain cases.

Thanks, I was just affraid I'd missed some kind of builtin macro or convention. At one point I thought that -> would rewrite function #"\*$" to decorate them with apply ... paranoid noobies you know.

ps: you're a very enthusiastic person ;)

One thing that will help a lot: type (source f) to see the source code for a function or macro. Also (doc f) for documentation.