Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Philippe Vaucher <address@hidden> writes:

> No, there is `s-concat`. People would write
>
> (s-concat "foo" "bar" "zot" "gazonk")

Probably not if they'd learned the (nonsensical) prepend/append versions
of the functions first.

This design is all over the s.el library -- for instance, there's a
s-chop-suffix function, and a s-chop-suffixes function, where a natural
Lisp design would be to have the suffixes a &rest in a single function.

It's understandable for people to want to port over idioms they are
familiar with from other programming languages, but it would (usually)
be a mistake to incorporate them into the language.  s.el is "let's
pretend Emacs Lisp is Javascript and/or Clojure"; in a couple of years
there'll be an s.el that is "let's pretend Emacs Lisp is Rust or Go" and
we'll have the same aliasing discussion all over again.

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