On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Sean Devlin <francoisdev...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This behavior becomes a pain when trying to use into:
>
> ;Good
> user=> (into {} [[:a 1] [:b 2] [:c 3] [:d 4]])
> {:a 1, :b 2, :c 3, :d 4}
>
> ;Bad
> user=> (into {} (partition 2 [:a 1 :b 2 :c 3 :d 4]))
> #<CompilerException java.lang.ClassCastException: clojure.lang.Keyword
> cannot be cast to java.util.Map$Entry (NO_SOURCE_FILE:...)>

Stuart S. already covered the reasons for this behavior.  Given
those reasons, a solution that works for your last example there
is:

(apply array-map [:a 1 :b 2 :c 3 :d 4])
;=> {:a 1, :b 2, :c 3, :d 4}

--Chouser
http://joyofclojure.com/

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