> I suspect that early on, still being a Clojure noobie, I'll stick with 
the 'proper' 
> Lisp forms and no doubt as I become more experienced I'll pick more 
> of the arcane Clojure idioms ;)


I agree. I have been working with Clojure for almost 8 months now. I am 
sort of in between "new" and "medium" in terms of getting used to it. I 
still find the "->" macro hard to read. I mentally have to translate it 
back to normal Clojure to figure out what is going on. 





On Monday, March 11, 2013 11:00:13 AM UTC-4, edw...@kenworthy.info wrote:
>
> But to understand the first you have to expand it into the second- which 
> means understanding the arcane squiggle -> and how it differs from the 
> equally arcane squiggle ->>. Nasty, sticky, syntactic sugar :)
>
> I suspect that early on, still being a Clojure noobie, I'll stick with the 
> 'proper' Lisp forms and no doubt as I become more experienced I'll pick 
> more of the arcane Clojure idioms ;)
>
> On Monday, March 11, 2013 10:58:29 AM UTC, edw...@kenworthy.info wrote:
>>
>> So I understand that:
>>
>> (-> foo bar wibble)
>>
>> is equivalent to
>>
>> (wibble (bar (foo)))
>>
>> With the advantage that the latter version is better, in the sense that 
>> it's clearer what the final result is (the result of the call to wobble).
>>
>> What I don't understand is the need for -> the only thing it seems to do 
>> is make something Lispy appear to be imperative.
>>
>> Is that it?
>>
>

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