Re: [ELPA] New package: transient

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 30.04.2020 21:19, Philippe Vaucher wrote:
> https://github.com/magnars/s.el and https://github.com/rejeep/f.el are 
> good starting points, but as others mentionned process-* is probably a 
> good candidate as well.

We should probably discuss specific proposals.

I haven't used dash/s/f much, but from what I see they do try to bring a 
more "flat" style of APIs, following the style of Clojure. There are a 
lot of utility functions in there too (like extra abstractions on top of 
the basics that the authors found to be useful). So when you ask the 
core library to be more like f.el, you'll have to specify what exactly 
you'd like to see changed: rename existing functions dealing with files 
to start with file-* or to add new ones. Then we can work out some sort 
of policy to adopt (or not) such changes.

Also, quite a bit of functions seem to be named with the purpose of 
keeping the names short, perhaps too short, like the author came over 
from Clojure, found out that you can't simply

  (require '[string-utils :as s])

so "properly namespaced" names will tend to be rather long, and decided 
to abbreviate them as much as possible. Examples: f-base, f-relative, 
f-ext. I'm not sure this will fly here.