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

[Phillip Lord]

address@hidden (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes:

> How often do you flatten lists? In 30 years of programming, I've never
> come across the situation where I needed to do so be it in Lisp, or
> any other functional language.  flatten is a trivial, mostly useless
> function, when it comes to Lisp in my experience.


Why ask, when you can find out?

There are about 350 usages of -flatten in MELPA, by grepping for
"(-flatten". Of these around 50 are in dash itself, the rest elsewhere.

So people do use -flatten but not that frequently; that is the way with
this kind of library. Most of the functions do not get used that often,
but it is often that many of them get used.

Phil