Have you tried NOT using a macro at all? This code does not need to be a 
macro at all if you ask me.

Just a little sketch but things could look just about the same without any 
macros at all:

(let [form {:editing? true
            :values form-values
            :validation validation-report
            :on-change handle-form-change}]
  (form/tag form
    (form/text form :name)
    (form/number form :age)))


;; in-ns 'form

(defn text [form field]
  [text-component {:id field
                   :value (get-in form [:values field])
                   ...}])

(defn tag
  [{:keys [editing?] :as form} & children]
  (into [:div.form.horizontal
         {:class (if editing? "editing" "editable")}]
        children))


Use macros very sparingly, most of the time data and functions are just 
better.

Just my 2 cents,
/thomas

On Wednesday, September 30, 2015 at 10:29:30 PM UTC+2, Colin Yates wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am banging my head against the wall - I think it is obvious but I have 
> started too long:
>
> The use-case is that I want a form which takes a set of children. The form 
> also takes in some form-wide state, like the form-wide validation, the 
> values for each item etc. I want the macro, for each child, to decorate 
> that child by extracting the validation errors and value from the form-wide 
> state.
>
> So, assuming:
>  - validation looks like {:name "Duplicate name" :age "You must be at 
> least 0"}
>  - form-values looks like {:name "a-duplicate-user" :age -1}
>
> then my form might look like:
>
> (form {:editing? true :values form-values :validation validation-report 
> :on-change handle-form-change}
>   [form/text {:id :name}]
>   [form/number {:id :age}])
>
> After the macro I want the following code:
>
> [:div.form.horizontal
>   {:class "editing"}
>   [form/text {:id :name :value "a-duplicate-user" :errors "Duplicate name" 
> :on-click (fn [e] (handle-form-change :name (-> e .target .value])]
>   [form/number {:id :age :value "-1" :errors "You must be at least 0" 
> :on-click (fn [e] (handle-form-change :age (-> e .target .value))]]
>
> However, ideally the macro would _not_ emit the contents of the input as 
> literals but would emit code that inspects the provided parameters at 
> run-time (i.e. rather than :value "a-duplicate-user" I would much prefer 
> :value (-> state values :name) as that will allow me to pass in an atom for 
> example.
>
> I have tried so many variations and evaluating the state (e.g. (:editing? 
> state)) works fine as the emitted code has the destructured values, but 
> that doesn't work for an atom.
>
> Here is my attempt at trying to emit code that interrogates the provided 
> parameter.
>
> (defmacro form [state & elements]
>   (let [state# state]
>     `[:div.form.horizontal
>       {:class (if (:editing? state#) "editing" "editable")}
>       ~@(map (fn [[_ {:keys [id]} :as child]]
>                (update child 1 assoc
>                        :editing? (:editing? state#)
>                        :value `(-> (:values state#) 'deref (get ~id))
>                        :on-change `(fn [e#]
>                                      (js/console.log "E: " 
> (cljs.core/clj->js e#))
>                                      ((:on-change state#) ~id (-> e# 
> .-target .-value)))))
>              elements)]))
>
> The error I am getting is that there is such var as the gen-sym's state# 
> in the namespace.
>
> The generic thing I am trying to do is remove the boilerplate from each of 
> the items in the form.
>
> Any and all suggestions are welcome. 
>
> Thanks!
>

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