2013/7/5 Mikera <mike.r.anderson...@gmail.com>:
> I really like the as-> macro for this kind of thing.
>
> (as-> (something) x
>          (if (test1 x) (transform1 x) x)
>          (if (test2 x) (transform2 x) x)
>          (do-something-else-with x y)
>          (if (test3 x) (transform3 x) x))
>
> Advantages:
> - It's part of core in 1.5
> - It's a macro and compiles down to efficient code
> - You can easily mix in other kinds of transforms (as demonstrated above)
Yep, indeed with as-> you can do this without repeating x as in the
let bindings, that's already better.

Is and-as-> a combo of some-> and as-> ? (in which case, could be be
named some-as-> ?)
>
> I also wrote a variant of this in my clojure-utils library that is very
> useful: the "and-as->" macro does exactly the same thing but bails out early
> if it finds a false or nil value. This turns out to be extremely useful for
> state-transformer type algorithms where you need to backtrack if a step
> doesn't succeed.
>
>
> On Friday, 5 July 2013 13:13:05 UTC+1, Laurent PETIT wrote:
>>
>> hello,
>>
>> More often than not, I'm facing code looking like this:
>>
>> (let [x (if (test1 x) (transform1 x) x)
>>        x (if (test2 x) (transform2 x) x)
>>        x (if (test3 x) (transform3 x) x)]
>>   x)
>>
>> Do you know of a better way to write this with only clojure.core
>> functions?
>>
>> So far, I've had no success with cond->, as->, etc.
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