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(defmacro while-> | |
"As long as the predicate holds true, threads | |
the expr through each form (via `->`). Once pred returns | |
false, the current value of all forms is returned." | |
[pred expr & forms] | |
(let [g (gensym) | |
pstep (fn [step] `(if (~pred ~g) (-> ~g ~step) ~g))] | |
`(let [~g ~expr | |
~@(interleave (repeat g) (map pstep forms))] | |
~g))) | |
(defn valid? [v] | |
(not (contains? v :errors))) | |
(while-> valid? | |
{:hello "world"} | |
(assoc :errors "my errors") | |
(assoc :and "goodbye")) | |
;; => {:hello "world", :errors "my errors"} | |
(while-> valid? | |
{:hello "world"} | |
(assoc :and "goodbye")) | |
;; => {:hello "world" :and "goodbye"} |
Ah, good point. I'll make that change...
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Interesting. This seems like a generalization of
some->
, but that fact doesn't seem useful.You'll want to gensym and let-bind
pred
because it could be a computed value.