You do mean keywords rather than symbols, right? A symbol would be
'hello. A keyword is :hello.
The ruby name for the clojure keyword concept is "symbol". I used to
get the terminology backwards because of that.
(assert (= (name :hello) "hello"))
(assert (= :hello (keyword "hello")))
On Apr 13, 2:34 pm, strattonbrazil <strattonbra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to map a dictionary and do different things depending on the
> key. I was planning on using an if-clause, but I'm not sure how to
> compare symbols to strings.
>
> Something like
>
> (map (fn [k v] (if (== k "hello") ... ...) {:hello 1 :goodbye 2})
>
> How would I normally compare symbols and strings?
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