Re: Elisp threading macros

[Rudolf Adamkovič]

Garklein <garklein97@gmail.com> writes:

> I don't see what's so bad about the names `->', `-->' etc.

I find them cryptic as well (and I say that as a professional Fennel
programmer, using Clojure syntax all day long).

> After all, we commonly use functions with such cryptic names as `car',
> `cdr', and `cons' :)

This is where Emacs Lisp could learn from Clojure and introduce `first',
`next', and `pair' aliases.  Document the new names as preferred and
keep the old "historical curiosities" functional forever.  Of course,
`mapcar' and the like would have to be renamed as well, but all that is
doable if there is a will to move the readability of the "very core" of
Emacs Lisp forward, from 1950s into the 21st century.

Rudy
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