On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Oleh Krehel <
address@hidden> wrote:
> I have a completely opposite opinion regarding syntactic sugar: it's
> detrimental unless you know what it does.
I think you're assuming that someone who uses such syntactic sugar will eventually want to learn what's underneath the sugar coating. Some do, some don't. I've had colleagues who were happy using Emacs but wouldn't want to learn even the simplest thing about elisp.