Re: searching for a good name thread-let, thread-with, thread-thru

2011-02-08 Thread Ken Wesson
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Jason wrote: > How about > >  (%-> >     starting-value >     (foo 3 %) >     (bar % arg2 arg3)) > > This combines the standard shorthand argument form from the inline > function with the threading. I also like be because the '%' stands > out. And this also presum

Re: searching for a good name thread-let, thread-with, thread-thru

2011-02-08 Thread Mark Fredrickson
I wanted to see how long this thread would go before someone linked to the old stuff. :-) Despite turning up repeatedly, the issue has never been put to bed. I suspect it is the name. There has been no consensus, as this thread demonstrates. I vote for one I haven't seen yet. `=>`. It's two charac

Re: searching for a good name thread-let, thread-with, thread-thru

2011-02-08 Thread Meikel Brandmeyer
Hi, Am 08.02.2011 um 22:11 schrieb B Smith-Mannschott: > Ah. Indeed. And Mark Fredrickson's "let->" is equivalent to my > thread-with macro. I even considered the name let->. I guess there's > no wheel that can't be reinvented. ;-) Yeah. Once per year or so. ;) Sincerely Meikel -- You receive

Re: searching for a good name thread-let, thread-with, thread-thru

2011-02-08 Thread B Smith-Mannschott
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 22:05, Meikel Brandmeyer wrote: > Ah. A classic: > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/66ff0b89229be894/c3d4a6dae45d4852 > > Some more names in this old thread. > > Sincerely > Meikel Ah. Indeed. And Mark Fredrickson's "let->" is equivalent to my th

Re: searching for a good name thread-let, thread-with, thread-thru

2011-02-08 Thread B Smith-Mannschott
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 16:36, Jason wrote: > How about > >  (%-> >     starting-value >     (foo 3 %) >     (bar % arg2 arg3)) > > This combines the standard shorthand argument form from the inline > function with the threading. I also like be because the '%' stands > out. This, or something very

Re: searching for a good name thread-let, thread-with, thread-thru

2011-02-08 Thread Meikel Brandmeyer
Ah. A classic: http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/66ff0b89229be894/c3d4a6dae45d4852 Some more names in this old thread. Sincerely Meikel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to c

Re: searching for a good name thread-let, thread-with, thread-thru

2011-02-08 Thread Jason
How about (%-> starting-value (foo 3 %) (bar % arg2 arg3)) This combines the standard shorthand argument form from the inline function with the threading. I also like be because the '%' stands out. On Feb 4, 3:05 pm, B Smith-Mannschott wrote: > Clojure's threading macros -> a

Re: searching for a good name thread-let, thread-with, thread-thru

2011-02-05 Thread B Smith-Mannschott
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:14, B Smith-Mannschott wrote: > I considered that, but decided against it because vector is the > conventional syntax for variable bindings in Clojure (let, fn, > defrecord, ...) Once I'd decided to do that, it became clear that the > first of the forms would become the

Re: searching for a good name thread-let, thread-with, thread-thru

2011-02-05 Thread B Smith-Mannschott
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 00:19, Michael Ossareh wrote: > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:05, B Smith-Mannschott > wrote: >> >> I came up with this macro, but I'm unsure what to call it: >> >> (defmacro thread-let [[varname init-expression :as binding] & expressions] >>  {:pre [(symbol? varname) >>      

Re: searching for a good name thread-let, thread-with, thread-thru

2011-02-04 Thread Hugo Duncan
On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:05:39 -0500, B Smith-Mannschott wrote: What should I name this thing? I'm concerned that "thread" is confusing due to its dual meaning. let seems in line with clojure conventions. (thread-let [x ...] ...) (thread-with [x ...] ...) (thread-through [x ...] ...) (let-> [x

Re: searching for a good name thread-let, thread-with, thread-thru

2011-02-04 Thread Michael Ossareh
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:05, B Smith-Mannschott wrote: > I came up with this macro, but I'm unsure what to call it: > > (defmacro thread-let [[varname init-expression :as binding] & expressions] > {:pre [(symbol? varname) > (not (namespace varname)) > (vector? binding) >

Re: searching for a good name thread-let, thread-with, thread-thru

2011-02-04 Thread Alan
Missing some parens there. Should be (->> (take 2)), of course. On Feb 4, 12:53 pm, Alan wrote: > Another solution, which is not especially satisfying but is worth > considering, is to use the most-common thread style at the top level, > and interweave some exceptions for the less-common style. >

Re: searching for a good name thread-let, thread-with, thread-thru

2011-02-04 Thread Alan
Another solution, which is not especially satisfying but is worth considering, is to use the most-common thread style at the top level, and interweave some exceptions for the less-common style. (-> 10 range 20 (->> take 2)) or (->> 10 (#(range % 20)) (take 2)) On Feb 4, 12:05 pm

Re: searching for a good name thread-let, thread-with, thread-thru

2011-02-04 Thread Ken Wesson
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:05 PM, B Smith-Mannschott wrote: > (defmacro thread-let [[varname init-expression :as binding] & expressions] >  {:pre [(symbol? varname) >         (not (namespace varname)) >         (vector? binding) >         (= 2 (count binding))]} >  `(let [~@(interleave (repeat varna

searching for a good name thread-let, thread-with, thread-thru

2011-02-04 Thread B Smith-Mannschott
Clojure's threading macros -> and ->> to be quite a win. It breaks down when the expression to be chained together are not consistent in nesting the threaded expression second or last. An idiomatic way to gain the necessary flexibility seems to be via let: (let [x (line-seq x) x (sort x)