For me ->> is a bread and butter of working with collections, like here:

(->> some-collection
       (concat other-collection)
       distinct
       (filter some-predicate)
       (sort-by some-sort-fn)
       (take 10))

On Monday, March 11, 2013 11:58:29 AM UTC+1, 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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