How can I use a calculated field in another calculation further down in the query?

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If I have a table that has a few native fields, such as: monthly written premium. But I used that field in combination with some date logic to calculate and create fields in the query called: CY YTD Written premium; PY YTD Written premium; and PY Written Premium.

How can I use those created fields in another calculation further down in the query.

What I need to do is take YTD Written Premium - PY YTD Written Premium + CY YTD Written Premium to create LTM Written Premium.

Snowflake will not allow me to reference the 3 fields needed to make LTM because they are not native to the table.

I know it has to be some sort of embedded query, but I'm unsure on the syntax.

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Snowflake supports inline column lateral reference, thus referencing alias at the same SELECT level will work as long as there is no nesting of windowed functions or shadowing table columns:

SELECT 
   expr AS col1,
   expr2 AS col2,
   col1 + col2 AS col3
FROM table;

Sample (col1, col2, col3 are expressions):

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