AFAIK treating kv lists as maps in destructuring was only introduced to support kwargs destructuring, hence why it's not supported for vectors.

On 02/01/17 18:00, Sean Corfield wrote:

This one had me scratching my head a bit too… here’s what I _/think/_ is going on:

First off, note that the most usual way to use the :keys destructuring is with a map:

                (let [{:keys [opt1]}  {:opt1 true}] [opt1]) ==> [true]

As you noted, the guide explicitly calls out “lists” and in this case you are passing a literal list:

                (let [{:keys [opt1]} '(:opt1 true)] [opt1]) ==> [true]

You’d also get the same answer with:

                (let [{:keys [opt1]} (list :opt1 true)] [opt1]) ==> [true]

But in this code, you have a vector, not a list:

                (let [{:keys [opt1]}  [:opt1 true]] [opt1]) ==> [nil]

If you turn your vector into a sequence, it _/does/_ work:

(let [{:keys [opt1]} (seq [:opt1 true])] [opt1]) ==> [true]

So it allows lists and sequences but not vectors here.

I’d be interested to know why vector isn’t treated the same as list / sequence here...?

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On 1/2/17, 2:41 AM, "mattias w" <clojure@googlegroups.com <mailto:clojure@googlegroups.com> on behalf of matti...@gmail.com <mailto:matti...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Could someone explain why the first doesn't work and the 2nd does?

(let [{:keys [opt1]}  [:opt1 true]] [opt1]) ==> [nil]

(let [{:keys [opt1]} '(:opt1 true)] [opt1]) ==> [true]

According to http://clojure.org/guides/destructuring

"Associative destructuring also works with lists of key-value pairs for keyword-arg parsing."

If I read the definition literally, I see, it says "lists" and not "sequences", so the behaviour is correct, so maybe a better question is why the definitions isn't

"Associative destructuring also works with sequences of key-value pairs for keyword-arg parsing."

It this specific case, when you destructor the args, it looks like a vector, but internally it is a list, so it works.

Happy New Year!

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