I am surprised that a map literal is clojure.lang.PersistentArrayMap but as 
soon as I assign it to a var, it becomes clojure.lang.PersistentHashMap. 
Are there any rules for being able to predict when these conversions occur? 

user> (type {})
clojure.lang.PersistentArrayMap

user> (type {:what "why?"})
clojure.lang.PersistentArrayMap

user> (def curious {:what "why?"})
#'user/curious

user> (type curious)
clojure.lang.PersistentHashMap

user> (def sug (assoc curious :whodoneit "mikey"))
#'user/sug

user> (type sug)
clojure.lang.PersistentHashMap

I am curious because I wrote a (reduce) function which mostly just builds a 
map: 

     (assoc map-of-data (:item-name next-item) next-item))

Since I was using assoc I was certain I would 
get clojure.lang.PersistentHashMap back, but instead I 
got clojure.lang.PersistentArrayMap. 






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