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Created March 20, 2017 16:03 — forked from john2x/00_destructuring.md
Clojure Destructuring Tutorial and Cheat Sheet

Clojure Destructuring Tutorial and Cheat Sheet

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Simply put, destructuring in Clojure is a way extract values from a datastructure and bind them to symbols, without having to explicitly traverse the datstructure. It allows for elegant and concise Clojure code.

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Created March 8, 2017 20:35 — forked from pjstadig/core.clj
In Clojure you can fetch items from a map three different ways. Which should you use when?
(ns maps.core)
;; In Clojure you can fetch items from a map three different ways. Which should
;; you use when?
(= "bar" ({:foo "bar"} :foo)) ; map as function
(= "bar" (:foo {:foo "bar"})) ; key as function
(= "bar" (get {:foo "bar"} :foo)) ; `get` as function
;; <INCIDENTALLY>