there is when-let, if-let, etc, that combine conditionals and lexical binding

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:31 PM, BerlinBrown <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> What is an idiom to call a function and also retain the result.  For
> example, I see myself doing this a lot, but it seems to more code than
> would be needed.
>
> (let [a (some-func)]
>  (when a
>    (println (a dosomething))))
>
> -----
>
> I wish I could avoid having to use the 'let' in this case
>
> I guess in python/ruby, this is something like this.
>
> print a.dosomething() ; if a
>
>
> >
>



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