While the macro can do what the original enhancement request suggested
that's not the actual problem the new threading macros were intended to
solve. They were primarily added to eliminate:
(let [x ...
x ...
x ...]
...)
Which is pretty ugly and also it's pretty easy to get into trouble.
David
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Alexander Yakushev <unlo...@bytopia.org>wrote:
> What a twist.
>
> Does any of the participants care to comment on this one? A hundred posts
> of bashing a person from the position of authority while the macro in
> question already sits in Core. I am against the usage of it myself, and
> closely followed previous discussions on this topic to understand the
> arguments being brought there; but arguing against something you already
> accepted is beyond my comprehension, tbh.
>
>
> On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 6:07:53 AM UTC+3, Gary Johnson wrote:
>>
>> Ugh. What a pointless thread. Someone could have just said:
>>
>> ---
>> It's already in clojure 1.5. The form you are looking for is called as->.
>> Your original example would be written like this:
>>
>> (as-> 3 x (+ 1 x 4) (prn "answer:" x))
>> ---
>>
>> Done. Yeesh.
>>
>> On Sunday, July 14, 2013 12:34:02 PM UTC-4, Jeremy Heiler wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Daniel Dinnyes <dinn...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Just made a quick search on `main arguments` on both Google and
>>> Wikipedia.
>>> > Do you mean the arguments in `public static void main (String[]
>>> args)`? If
>>> > not please provide some definition what do you mean by main arguments.
>>> Else
>>> > the point is meaningless.
>>>
>>> He means the arguments you are threading.
>>>
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