Re: Improve `replace-regexp-in-string' ergonomics?

[Adam Porter]

Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com> writes:

> Clojure has a moderately useful named variant of the threading macro for
> this kind of situation:
>
>         (as-> expr name & forms)
>
>     Binds name to expr, evaluates the first form in the lexical context
>     of that binding, then binds name to that result, repeating for each
>     successive form, returning the result of the last form.
>
> (I guess I would have chosen the opposite order of the 'expr' and 'name'
> arguments, though.)

Agreed, I'd be happy to have a `thread-as' macro, used like:

  (thread-as NAME EXPR &rest FORMS)

I considered proposing one recently, but it seems like anaphoric macros
aren't popular around here.  :)  Sometimes they really are the best way
to simplify code, since not all functions work with `thread-last' or
`thread-first'.