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		pfdietz 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I Program in Lisp It's easy enough to add -> (and related arrow operators) to Common Lisp as macros. https://github.com/hipeta/arrow-macros The common complaint that Common Lisp lacks some feature is often addressed by noting how easy it is to add that feature.

tmtvl 9 months ago [–]

Besides arrow-macros there's also cl-arrows, which is basically exactly the same thing, and Serapeum also has arrow macros (though the -> macro in Serapeum is for type definitions, the Clojure-style arrow macro is hence relegated to ~>).

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