Thanks Herwig, cond-> looks just the ticket.

Off the read the core API again :).

On Wednesday, 21 May 2014 17:49:11 UTC+1, Herwig Hochleitner wrote:
>
> I like to build more complex sequences within the sequence monad, like 
> this:
>
> (concat
>   (when cond1 [start elements])
>   main-seq
>   (when cond2 [end elements]))
>
> This also composes nicely with function calls.
>  
> Another option for a subset of cases:
>
> (cond-> start-vec
>   condition1 (conj end-element1)
>   condition2 (conj end-element2))
>
> kind regards
>
>
> 2014-05-21 18:23 GMT+02:00 Colin Yates <colin...@gmail.com <javascript:>>:
>
>> I often find myself doing the following:
>>
>> (let [some-seq []
>>       some_seq (if some-condition? (conj some-seq some-element) some-seq)
>>       some_seq (if some-other-condition? (conj some-seq 
>> some-other-element) some-seq)
>>       some_seq etc.])
>>
>> In other words building up a sequence which contains the results of 
>> predicated elements.  Building up a where clause in SQL for example.
>>
>> I experimented with the -> and ->> but that didn't help and just looked 
>> messier.
>>
>> How do you handle this pretty common use case?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
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