Itβs because if you treat a hash map as a sequence β as `for` does β you get a sequence of pairs (key/value β map entries):
(seq {:a 1 :b 2}) ;;=> ([:a 1] [:b 2]) Does that help? Sean > On Jun 5, 2015, at 7:41 PM, gvim <gvi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I must re-read "Clojure Programming" (O'Reilly) in that case as I don't > recall the authors mentioning this kind of destructuring. > > gvim > > > On 06/06/2015 03:33, Fluid Dynamics wrote: >> On Friday, June 5, 2015 at 10:07:05 PM UTC-4, g vim wrote: >> >> That works but I missed this possibility because I'm still not clear >> how: >> >> (group-by :email signs) >> >> .... which produces a map of the form: >> >> {"a...@gmail.com <javascript:>" >> [{:email "a...@gmail.com <javascript:>", :sign "Cancer", >> :planet "Mars", :surname >> "Blogs", :first_name "Joe"} >> ..... ]} >> >> .... can be destructured with the vector [email signs]. I assumed a map >> must be destructured with a map but couldn't find a solution as the map >> keys are unique values, ie. email addresses. >> >> >> The code was (for [[email signs] (group-by...)]...). The for iterates >> over the map produced by group-by, producing individual map entries, and >> map entries can be treated as two-element seqs/vectors of [key value], >> which is what the destructuring does here, putting the key in local >> binding email and the value, a vector with maps in it, in signs. -- 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.