Into is reduce-conj, and this relies on a special-case of conj for maps and
map entries.  I find it hard to read, so I would vote for apply/reduce
merge.

This is weird and unexpected, so please don't:
user> (into {:c :d} [{:a :b}])
{:c :d, :a :b}
user> (into {:c :d} {:a :b})
{:c :d, :a :b}



On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Max Penet <m...@qbits.cc> wrote:

> You don't need apply, you can just use into:
>
> user> (into {} [{:apple "red and crunchy"} nil nil {:Numb 1} nil nil
> {:Field "FRUIT.Description"}])
> {:apple "red and crunchy", :Numb 1, :Field "FRUIT.Description"}
>
> On Monday, July 8, 2013 5:01:20 PM UTC+2, VaedaStrike wrote:
>>
>> So I have data structure that's equivalent to the following—
>>
>> ({:apple "red and crunchy"} nil nil {:Numb 1} nil nil {:Field
>> "FRUIT.Description"})
>>
>> and I'm trying to combine the maps into a single map and I'm just being
>> flummoxed
>>
>> I tried destructuring it and then applying a merge to the maps while not
>> touching the 'nil's but I'm not getting that to work, here's the code I
>> tried—
>>
>>
>> (def sequ ({:apple "red and crunchy"} nil nil {:Numb 1} nil nil {:Field
>> "FRUIT.Description"}))
>> ::The above is just representing the structure I get from a previous
>> parse function.
>> ;; If there's a way to alter this so it works with what I'm trying to do
>> please
>> ;; let me know, or if I'm just doing it all wrong let me know as well!!
>>
>>
>> (defn extract-n-merge-map [sequ]
>>   (let [(a _ _ b _ _ c) sequ]
>>     (merge a b c)))
>>
>> ;; This is giving me "unsupported binding form: (a _ _ b _ _ c) at line
>> ..."
>>
>> Basically I'm using instaparse to take a block of code in another
>> language and trying to automate it's transformation to a new format.
>>
>> I thought that parsing out and taging it's components in a map would give
>> me an overall process that would make other such
>> automatons in the future much easier, but since this is my first attempt
>> at using clojure to do something productive I'm just
>> riddled with noobness and it's just getting so frustrating to have gotten
>> this far and not being able to figure out how to get over the
>> last hump.
>>
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