I believe the current behavior with apply is the correct behavior as a map can be treated as a sequence of "MapEntry"s.
-- > On Mar 23, 2015, at 19:15, Mark Engelberg <mark.engelb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. >> >> -- >> 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 >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Clojure" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.