Makes a clojure Map from a given coll.

ltm.clj

(defn ltm
  "Makes a clojure map from a given collection. lst should have an even number of elements"
  [lst]
  (reduce merge
    (map (fn [l] {(keyword (first l)) (second l) } ) (partition 2 lst))))

;kudos to @paulosuzart
;user=> (ltm '(:a 1 :b 2 :c3 :d 4))
;{:c3 :d, :b 2, :a 1}

;;or
;;user=> (ltm '("name" "paulo" "age" 29))
;;{:age 29, :name "paulo"}

Maybe you can use (keyword (str 1))