conj can surely produce maps, and does so happily in the following cases: (conj {} [:foo :bar]) (conj {} {:foo :bar})
I suggesting adding printlns or logging or a debugger and checking the value of this-users-params, it is almost certainly not what you expect it to be. as a side note creating a date object just to call getTime is kind of gross, try (System/currentTimeMillis) On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Sean Corfield <seancorfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:10 AM, larry google groups > <lawrencecloj...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> (defn add-to-logged-in-registry [this-users-params] >> (let [right-now (. (Date.) getTime) >> new-user-entry (conj this-users-params { "updated" right-now })] >> (if (:username new-user-entry) >> (swap! registry assoc (:username new-user-entry) new-user-entry)))) >> >> The if statement seems to never be true. > > > conj produces a sequence, not a map, so the lookup of :username fails. Try > new-user-entry (assoc this-users-params "updated" right-now) > -- > Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN > An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ > World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ > > "Perfection is the enemy of the good." > -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en