Hello!

I much enjoyed reading the tutorial http://www.lisperati.com/casting.html
, mentioned by eyeris today. The most mind-extending thing (to me,
having Java background) is the, admittedly non-idiomatic, use of
symbols as data.

But I have two translation problems, I want to pose before going to
sleep (its pitch dark in Europe :). First the easy one:

Common Lisp
(defun describe-path (path)
  `(there is a ,(second path) going ,(first path) from here.))

My Clojure version, I use a map:
(defn describe-path [path]
        (let [what (path :kind) where (path :direction)]
    (concat '(there is a) (list what) '(going) (list where) '(from
here.))))

Thats much less elegant. Is there a nicer way?

Thank you, alux

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