dash.el

It is quite a bit more readable comparing (for example) to what you'd do in Python, basically a matter of few extra quotes. Here's an example https://github.com/magnars/dash.el/blob/a17b6b5409825891423b... Another benefit apart from macros is that you can replace whole subexpressions to modify the function code: https://github.com/raxod502/el-patch#el-patch Although arguably you can achieve the same with source code and other languages: https://github.com/adamchainz/patchy#patchy Although (as a keen Emacs user & someone who often hacks into existing librairies) user I'm not really convinced either that homoiconicity plays that huge of a role in Emacs malleability in particular -- to me it's more about hooks/advice system and being able to dynamically override things to tweak into the way I want them to behave -- and I don't see a good rea

You should check dash[1]. It adds a lot of those "many little things" from Clojure (such as ->, and ->>, and let) to elisp. [1]https://github.com/magnars/dash.el

> Can you show me an example of such a package? https://github.com/magnars/dash.el > All the Elpa packages are hosted on a Savannah instance. That's the "publishing repository". You have to push there for a new version of your package to be published on GNU Elpa. But for most packages development happens elsewhere, and in most cases "elsewhere" is Github. Emacs maintainers sometimes commit directly in the Elpa repository (and package maintainers are expected to deal with the consequences, such as "two diverging mainlines"), but development happens elsewhere.

You do realize that these mistakes are made by people learning the immutable approach ? For people having started with functional programming or other systems (the first computational systems I used were lazy reactive computer graphics) you have close to zero confusion from beginning. Beside if you want to thread modification in a cuter way, Clojure ->> macro allows (upperCase (first-three-letters string)) to be written (->> string first-three-letters upperCase) More here http://clojuredocs.org/clojure_core/clojure.core/-%3E%3E. There was experimentation for the 'it' style, but it's fragile in most code, thinking of with statements: - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1931186/with-keyword-in-javascript - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wc500chb.aspx They had non-intuitive side-effects hard to

Formerly bang.el (reasons for the name change: https://github.com/magnars/bang.el)