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If you want a syntax quote / unquote without namespace qualifying you can take a look at https://github.com/brandonbloom/backtick

i've used backtick many times with good success, the template macro is very useful

There is. It's just that unquote (the actual special behind the ~ sugar) works only with the syntax quote. But then you have the issue where ?e is syntax-quoted, so you'd have to circumvent it with ~'?e.

Ah, I guess that's exactly your question then. :)

The regular quote quotes everything, regardless of specials. Adding an unquote to it would make it not work in any scenarios where you need to, well, quote clojure.core/unquote. There would be some scenarios that are impossible to implement.

You could just quote the symbol ?e in that:

(d/q [:find '?e
      :where
      ['?e :aka name]]
     (d/db conn))

Or even:

(let [?e '?e]
  (d/q [:find ?e :where [?e :aka name]] (d/db conn))

Heh, neat. Now it's just a matter of somebody coming over and making letq that lets you (letq [?a ?b ?c] (d/q ...)). :D

(defmacro letsym [syms & body]
  (let [bindings (mapcat (fn [sym]
                           [sym `'~sym]) syms)]
    `(let [~@bindings]
       ~@body)))

(macroexpand-1 '(letsym [?a ?b ?c]
                  (do-something)))

(let [v 1]
  (letsym [?a ?b ?c]
    [:find ?a
     :where [?a :data/value ?b]
     [?b :data/next-val v]]))

Before you try to implement such a macro. I have this already: https://clojureverse.org/t/create-code-like-data-structures-dynamically/10903/10?u=habruening But the question is, why does Clojure not have something like this already? And why doesn't Datomic bring data into the query in this way?