I believe the current behavior with apply is the correct behavior as a map can 
be treated as a sequence of "MapEntry"s. 

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> 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.
>> 
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