I still think "oh, a generator function" when I program in clojure. I'm just not excited every time I got to use it. That's all the difference IMHO. Also - the

I still think "oh, a generator function" when I program in clojure. I'm just not excited every time I got to use it. That's all the difference IMHO. Also - there are such "nonexciting patterns" in OOP languages as well, and they are much less often abused. For example "a switch inside a while" pattern. Which I think I will need to name "StateMachinePattern" to make it cool and stop people refactoring it into strategies and stuff. There is value in one-screen definition of the whole machine, instead of separating it into 6 files.