See this discussion: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/clojure/67JQ7xSUOM4

(kinda hard to Google for functions with -> in their name so it took
me a bit of digging!)

Sean

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Steven Degutis <sbdegu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In that case, shouldn't it be named let-> instead of as->?
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:03 PM, David Nolen <dnolen.li...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> While the macro can do what the original enhancement request suggested
>> that's not the actual problem the new threading macros were intended to
>> solve. They were primarily added to eliminate:
>>
>> (let [x ...
>>       x ...
>>       x ...]
>>    ...)
>>
>> Which is pretty ugly and also it's pretty easy to get into trouble.
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Alexander Yakushev <unlo...@bytopia.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> What a twist.
>>>
>>> Does any of the participants care to comment on this one? A hundred posts
>>> of bashing a person from the position of authority while the macro in
>>> question already sits in Core. I am against the usage of it myself, and
>>> closely followed previous discussions on this topic to understand the
>>> arguments being brought there; but arguing against something you already
>>> accepted is beyond my comprehension, tbh.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 6:07:53 AM UTC+3, Gary Johnson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Ugh. What a pointless thread. Someone could have just said:
>>>>
>>>>  ---
>>>>  It's already in clojure 1.5. The form you are looking for is called
>>>> as->.
>>>>  Your original example would be written like this:
>>>>
>>>>   (as-> 3 x (+ 1 x 4) (prn "answer:" x))
>>>>   ---
>>>>
>>>> Done. Yeesh.
>>>>
>>>> On Sunday, July 14, 2013 12:34:02 PM UTC-4, Jeremy Heiler wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Daniel Dinnyes <dinn...@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> > Just made a quick search on `main arguments` on both Google and
>>>>> > Wikipedia.
>>>>> > Do you mean the arguments in `public static void main (String[]
>>>>> > args)`? If
>>>>> > not please provide some definition what do you mean by main
>>>>> > arguments. Else
>>>>> > the point is meaningless.
>>>>>
>>>>> He means the arguments you are threading.
>>>
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