Yes, I thought that technique worked, but I just conducted the same
experiment as you did and confirmed that it doesn't.  I must have been
misremembering.  You are correct that passing a map to a keyword-arg
function is more of a nuisance than it should be.

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Matching Socks <phill.w...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Could you give an example demonstrating this?
>
> user> (defn a [& {x :x y :y}] (vector x y))
> #'user/a
>
> user> (a :y 7 :x 3)
> [3 7]
>
> user> (apply a {:x 3 :y 7})
> [nil nil]
>
>
>
> On Monday, March 23, 2015 at 6:13:55 AM UTC-4, puzzler wrote:
>>
>> It's been a while since I've tested this, but I believe that if a map is
>> passed as the last argument to apply, Clojure "does the right thing" and
>> passes the map in as keyword args.
>>
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