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> what i'm saying is >90% true so i don't care if anyone nitpicks this

Can't argue with that logic :-P You've obviously spent years writing nim and know what you're talking about /s

But in all seriousness, as the author of the sugar.collect macro, I am fond of it. I understand that not everyone likes how fp is done nim but it's ok.

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thanks for the work you do! my comment was very harsh, but I would never have written such a long comment if I didn't fundamentally like what Nim is trying to do. it comes from disappointment, not dislike. fwiw I've put in maybe 100 hours honestly trying to learn and use the language, and I don't have much to show for it. I think that has to count as some kind of failure, of the language and/or the documentation. I haven't run into this with any other language.

Thank you for your kind words sir. I didn't expect it. And I am sorry for your lost time. But I hope the situation improves.

> how fp is done nim

It's great that a composition of libraries (sequtils, sugar, algorithm) can get us close to the effortless quasi-FP people may be used to from LINQ. I just wish this would be merged into one library. Pretty much every single module that uses one of them imports all three in my code. We need one, consistent, awesome library to interact with collections.

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