Ha, yeah, I get where you're coming from. And I toyed with putting a threading macro example inline, and in the end put a footnote in instead. My reasoning was

Ha, yeah, I get where you're coming from. And I toyed with putting a threading macro example inline, and in the end put a footnote in instead. My reasoning was that basically, regardless of the threading macros, you are going to have to learn to read/write s-expressions as-is for a couple of reasons: 1. The threading macros won't be the best way forward in all cases. 2. You're going to need to read other people's code, which wasn't using the macros. Overall, I was trying to make the point that it is a real hurdle (at least that's how it felt for me), but worth getting over. As a week or so later, you can read s-expressions with relative ease. That it's worth making the effort, because they are pretty awesome. Maybe I just didn't communicate that very well.