Add docs and tests for as-> macro

docs/language/api.rst

@@ -179,6 +179,79 @@ other case, the first false value will be returned. Example usage:
     False
 
 
+as->
+----
+
+.. versionadded:: 0.12.0
+
+Expands to sequence of assignments to the provided name, starting with head.
+The previous result is thus available in the subsequent form. Returns the final
+result, and leaves the name bound to it in the local scope. This behaves much
+like the other threading macros, but requires you to specify the threading
+point per form via the name instead of always the first or last argument.
+
+.. code-block:: clj
+
+  ;; example how -> and as-> relate
+
+  => (as-> 0 it
+  ...      (inc it)
+  ...      (inc it))
+  2
+
+  => (-> 0 inc inc)
+  2
+
+  ;; create data for our cuttlefish database
+
+  => (setv data [{:name "hooded cuttlefish"
+  ...             :classification {:subgenus "Acanthosepion"
+  ...                              :species "Sepia prashadi"}
+  ...             :discovered {:year 1936
+  ...                          :name "Ronald Winckworth"}}
+  ...            {:name "slender cuttlefish"
+  ...             :classification {:subgenus "Doratosepion"
+  ...                              :species "Sepia braggi"}
+  ...             :discovered {:year 1907
+  ...                          :name "Sir Joseph Cooke Verco"}}])
+
+  ;; retrieve name of first entry      
+  => (as-> (first data) it
+  ...      (:name it))
+  'hooded cuttlefish'
+
+  ;; retrieve species of first entry
+  => (as-> (first data) it
+  ...      (:classification it)
+  ...      (:species it))
+  'Sepia prashadi'
+
+  ;; find out who discovered slender cuttlefish
+  => (as-> (filter (fn [entry] (= (:name entry)
+  ...                           "slender cuttlefish")) data) it
+  ...      (first it)
+  ...      (:discovered it)
+  ...      (:name it))
+  'Sir Joseph Cooke Verco'
+
+  ;; more convoluted example to load web page and retrieve data from it
+  => (import [urllib.request [urlopen]])
+  => (as-> (urlopen "http://docs.hylang.org/en/stable/") it
+  ...      (.read it)
+  ...      (.decode it "utf-8")
+  ...      (drop (.index it "Welcome") it)
+  ...      (take 30 it)
+  ...      (list it)
+  ...      (.join "" it))
+  'Welcome to Hy’s documentation!
+
+.. note::
+
+  In these examples, the REPL will report a tuple (e.g. `('Sepia prashadi', 
+  'Sepia prashadi')`) as the result, but only a single value is actually
+  returned.
+
+
 assert
 ------
 

hy/core/macros.hy

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
   The previous result is thus available in the subsequent form. Returns the
   final result, and leaves the name bound to it in the local scope. This behaves
   much like the other threading macros, but requires you to specify the threading
-  point per form via the name instead of always the first or last arument."
+  point per form via the name instead of always the first or last argument."
   `(do (setv
          ~name ~head
          ~@(interleave (repeat name) rest))

tests/native_tests/language.hy

@@ -588,6 +588,29 @@
              ["X" "B" "C" "D"])))
 
 
+(defn test-as-threading []
+  "NATIVE: test as threading macro"
+  (setv data [{:name "hooded cuttlefish"
+               :classification {:subgenus "Acanthosepion"
+                                :species "Sepia prashadi"}
+               :discovered {:year 1936
+                            :name "Ronald Winckworth"}}
+              {:name "slender cuttlefish"
+               :classification {:subgenus "Doratosepion"
+                                :species "Sepia braggi"}
+               :discovered {:year 1907
+                            :name "Sir Joseph Cooke Verco"}}])
+  (assert (= (as-> (first data) x
+                   (:name x))
+             "hooded cuttlefish"))
+  (assert (= (as-> (filter (fn [entry] (= (:name entry)
+                           "slender cuttlefish")) data) x
+                   (first x)
+                   (:discovered x)
+                   (:name x))
+             "Sir Joseph Cooke Verco")))
+
+
 (defn test-assoc []
   "NATIVE: test assoc"
   (setv vals {"one" "two"})