Sometimes I have an expression like (f (g (h x))), except that the f, g, and h represent operations that are a little too short to bother giving names to (or even introducing lambdas) but a little too long to mash together. In a procedural language, you'd maybe write a sequence of operations, someth…

Are you finding that you need to frequently write lambdas when using the threading macro? I'm curious why that would be the case --- could you share an example? Note that you can use _ to indicate placement of the argument within the expressions: (~> "middle" (string-append "beginning-" _ "-end"))…

And if you use Qi with SRFI-105 Curly Infix you can write more easy to understand flows in infix : {("middle") ~> (string-append "beginning-" _ "-end")} note that it seems that in @countvajhula example seems "middle" require to be between parenthesis ( ) because for me it does not works (even with…

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Laurent.O September 3, 2025, 4:25pm 2

I'd write the above, but wrapped in a simple macro like this one.

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