> How to rearrange the Clojure code for understandability?
One approach I've used in Common Lisp to avoid multiple lets is to do
(let* ((x (let ((v 1))
(f v) ; for side-effects
v))
(y (+ x 2)))
(g y))
This calls to mind Clojure's doto, which instantiates a Java object,
does some stuff to it, then returns the object. It would be easy to
define a macro to describe this.
Of course, if `f` *returns* the value you want to bind to `x`, you
don't have this problem (you can just put (f x) directly in the let
binding form).
You also don't have this problem if you don't need to call `f` before
binding `y`. (+ x 2) is side-effect free, and (f x) cannot mutate `x`,
so your Clojure code can easily be written
(let [x 1
y (+ x 2)]
(f x)
(g y))
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