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A clojure multi-if macro
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; first try | |
; broke because the macro ended up evaluating the condition and just being an instruciton to do the pass or fail | |
;(defmacro multi-if [test pass fail] (list 'if test (do pass) (do fail))) | |
; second try including arity and notice the returning of a construction | |
;(defmacro multi-if [test & {then :then else :else}] (list 'if test (cons 'do then) (cons 'do else))) | |
; third try, seems to have proper way of supplying map to macro as argument | |
;(defmacro multi-if [test & {:keys [then else]}] (list 'if test (cons 'do then) (cons 'do else))) | |
; I see now that this third try produces a macro like the following... | |
;(macroexpand '(multi-if (> 3 1) :then (+ 3 1))) | |
; => (if (> 3 1) (do + 3 1) (do)) | |
; when I really need it to produce... | |
; => (if (> 3 1) (do (+ 3 1)) (do)) | |
; e-mail from mike said I had two questions, but I realize I got the macro wrong, was getting answers in the style of: | |
;user=> (multi-if (> 3 1) :then ("ok")) | |
;"ok" | |
;which I now know isn't right | |
; fourth try, I think I'm closer... | |
(defmacro multi-if [test & {:keys [then else]}] (list 'if test (cons 'do [then]) (cons 'do [else]))) | |
; user=> (macroexpand '(multi-if (> 3 1) :then (+ (+ 3 1) (inc 5)))) | |
; produces: (if (> 3 1) (do (+ (+ 3 1) (inc 5))) (do nil) |
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