From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: Oleh <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>, "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clojure-like syntactic sugar for an anonymous function literal
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 11:20:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a91bf76y.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877fwfunnz.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Thu, 22 Jan 2015 19:15:12 +0900")
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:
> Oleh writes:
>
> > The most popular library in MELPA, https://github.com/magnars/dash.el,
> > implements it (for a long time) like this:
> >
> > (--map (* it it) '(1 2 3))
> > ;; => (1 4 9)
> >
> > With my approach, it's:
> >
> > (mapcar #(* % %) '(1 2 3))
> > ;; => (1 4 9)
>
> That looks almost like Perl! Now I'm -2. Just require dash.
>
> Personally, I don't see a huge advantage to anonymous functions
> anyway, not even in an interactive repl,
They are useful for calculated bindings. Context-sensitive mouse-overs
or active links, regular bindings (I am currently working on some
private project involving keybindings to keys on an accordion keyboard,
and little surprisingly those are all different but all of the same
kind).
Stuff like that.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-22 10:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-21 21:38 [PATCH] Clojure-like syntactic sugar for an anonymous function literal Oleh
2015-01-21 22:28 ` samer
2015-01-21 22:37 ` Oleh
2015-01-21 23:36 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-21 23:46 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 0:54 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-22 0:57 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-22 1:29 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 2:21 ` Drew Adams
2015-01-22 13:35 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2015-01-22 7:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 8:04 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 8:16 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-22 9:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-01-22 9:19 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 8:52 ` René Kyllingstad
2015-01-22 9:17 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-22 9:27 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 9:38 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 9:45 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 9:50 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 9:52 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 9:57 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 10:05 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 16:57 ` Ivan Andrus
2015-01-23 0:54 ` Leo Liu
2015-01-24 23:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-01-22 10:15 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 10:20 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2015-01-22 14:21 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 14:31 ` Oleh
2015-01-23 1:03 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 10:22 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 10:32 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-22 10:40 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 10:56 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-01-22 11:03 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 14:35 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 14:44 ` Oleh
2015-01-23 1:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 14:48 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-23 1:17 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-01-22 11:03 ` Phillip Lord
2015-01-22 9:35 ` René Kyllingstad
2015-01-22 9:45 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 9:49 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-22 9:53 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 10:22 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-22 12:37 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-01-22 12:46 ` Phillip Lord
2015-01-22 12:49 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 13:07 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 22:10 ` Richard Stallman
2015-01-23 9:28 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-24 1:09 ` Richard Stallman
2015-01-24 8:29 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2015-01-23 10:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-22 16:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-22 17:22 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 20:34 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-22 23:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-22 23:38 ` Reader macros (Was: Re: [PATCH] Clojure-like syntactic sugar for an anonymous function literal) Daniel Colascione
2015-01-23 9:33 ` Reader macros David Kastrup
2015-01-23 11:45 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-23 12:27 ` David Kastrup
2015-01-23 10:34 ` [PATCH] Clojure-like syntactic sugar for an anonymous function literal Phillip Lord
2015-01-23 10:47 ` Oleh
2015-01-23 11:53 ` Phillip Lord
2015-01-23 12:02 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-23 11:50 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-01-23 13:18 ` Phillip Lord
2015-01-23 20:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-23 20:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-23 22:25 ` Phillip Lord
2015-01-23 7:44 ` Oleh
2015-01-22 23:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-22 18:30 ` Artur Malabarba
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2015-01-26 22:22 Barry OReilly
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