Re: dash.el [was: Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs]

[Richard Stallman]

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  >    (print (eval (read)))

  > into:

  >     (-> (read)
  >       eval
  >       print)

The preference is a matter of taste.  If you have a taste for Lisp, the former
seems totally natural.  If you don't, maybe it seems strange.

->> is natural enough, because it adds the carried-over
argument at the end of the list.  But -> is unnatural,
since it adds the carried-over argument in the middle of the list
(after the first element).  I think that nested calls are
cleaner than ->.


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Dr Richard Stallman
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