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

[Stefan Monnier]

> IMHO, we shouldn’t be that protective of non-programming users.  After
> all, almost all concepts they’ll have to work with will be novel to
> them, so I doubt a few shorthands would make that big of a difference.

Agreed, which is why I think it's perfectly fine to have anonymous
lambdas in there [even tho they are still "scary higher-order
programming" to many professional programmers, last I checked ;-) ]

We don't disagree on the advantages and disadvantages.  We just disagree
on the respective weight we put on them.


        Stefan