Re: Elisp threading macros

[Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>]

On Thu, Aug 29 2024, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On the one hand, you can't just change the whole community "just like that":
> people gravitate towards languages for reasons (I must admit I cringe myself
> when I see those threaded macros, but then, my excursions into those newer
> functional languages have never really worked). Most people are here because
> they like things as they are.

Yes, I think that's very much the point. It's more a matter of taste than
anything else. And taste for a large part depends on what one is used to.
When I first encountered Clojure, I quite disliked it. And threading
macros? You'd have to be out of your mind to write code like that...

But at some point, I decided to learn Clojure and I must admit, I really
like the language. It's different than Elisp for sure, but things that
irked me initially, I came to like eventually, because I started to see why
they were designed the way they are. (I'd actually love to do more with
Clojure, TBH...)

Still, that doesn't mean I think Elisp should become more like Clojure, of
course. (I'm actually neutral on that point.) I think the current
situation, with the seq library and thread-{first|last} available in core,
and dash.el readily available from GNU ELPA, is a good compromise. (And, to
the OP: from your perspective, probably the "best" you're gonna get. 😉)



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Joost Kremers
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