On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Richard Newman <holyg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I wonder if perhaps (into {} a-java-map) should work but no other
> > substitutions of a potentially-mutable map for a Clojure map.
>
> Baby, bathwater. Making a persistent map out of a Java map is
> expensive. Not everything that implements Map is concrete; e.g.,
> spending several seconds making a local persistent Clojure map out of
> a distributed hash table proxy, just to get a value, would cause
> programmers to drop down to Java to avoid this pointless restriction.
> Why bother?
Better let "get" still work on them too, then. :)
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