On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Chris <christopher.ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you have a function that needs to treat multiple arguments as a
> group, what forces drive you to represent this as a single sequence
> argument vs. an "&" argument?  To give a concrete example, why does
> "+" work like
>
> (+ 1 2 3 4)
>
> instead of
>
> (+ [1 2 3 4])
>
> Is it performance?  Aesthetics?  Composability concerns?  Not having
> to call "apply" all the time?

"Not having to use extra brackets all the time" gets my vote. Yeah,
yeah, I know, a strange statement coming from a lisp-head.

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