A local var for case without let?

[Pankaj Doharey]

A common pattern while using 'case' is to set a temporary var using 'let'.

(let [lst '(1 2)]
  (case lst
    vector? (println "Vector : " lst )
    list? (println "A list : " lst )
    (println "Something else")))

Can we not have a case without a let like this :

(case [lst '(1 2)]
  vector? (println "Vector : " lst )
  list? (println "A list : " lst )
  (println "Something else")))

Can you think of a scenario where this can be a conflict? 

Please do suggest if you think it is a good/bad idea.

I think it would a a nice syntactic convenience.

[Gary Trakhman]

It's definitely the wrong idea for `case`, I don't think your sample code does what you think it does, but see the cond-let discussion from a week ago: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/clojure/Rq5_exjIxv0/yr5sue59AwAJ

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[Pankaj Doharey]

Ok its a bad idea and condp covers the use case i was shooting for. Thanks.