Re: [emacs-tangents] [External] : Exiting from mapc

[Eduardo Ochs]

On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 at 05:19, Joel Reicher <joel.reicher@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> People vary in their cognitive styles.
> >
> > Well expressed.
>
> It is a truism, and irrelevant in this context.


Hi Joel, Jean, Van Ly, and others...

What about this?

Consider these two styles of presenting structures:

  1) (info "(cl)Structures")

  2) (cl-defstruct myabc a b c)
     (setq o (make-myabc :a 22 :c "44"))
     (cl-prin1-to-string o)

The style (1) uses a lot of text and uses structures like this one,

  (cl-defstruct person first-name age sex)

and the style (2) uses very little text and uses "abstract" names like
a, b, and c...

I've seen people who can't understand `a's, `b's, and `c's without
"examples from the real world" and people who are overwhelmed by the
extra connotation of terms "person", "first-name", "age", and "sex",
and who vastly prefer the style (2)...

  Cheers,
    Eduardo Ochs
    http://anggtwu.net/#eev