That's true, I did end up using the Calendar methods since they aren't 
deprecated and are more intuitive.
I can still see the bean being useful for destructuring other Java objects 
though, Date is a bad example I suppose.

On Wednesday, August 10, 2016 at 6:50:05 PM UTC-6, Karsten Schmidt wrote:
>
> It's useful, true, but also about 220x slower than writing a dedicated 
> helper fn (plus java.util.Date's bean accessors are pretty useless 
> (:year = year - 1900, :day = day of week, :date = day of month). I 
> wouldn't use `bean` if you have to deal with lots of dates... 
>
> (defn inst->map 
>   [^Calendar t] 
>   {:year (.get t Calendar/YEAR :month (.get Calendar/MONTH) :day (.get 
> Calendar/DAY_OF_MONTH)}) 
>
>
> On 10 August 2016 at 19:05, Jacob Strength <mypc...@gmail.com 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > Thank you, that is really helpful! 
> > 
> > On Wednesday, August 10, 2016 at 11:29:52 AM UTC-6, Toby Crawley wrote: 
> >> 
> >> clojure.core/bean (https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/bean) is what 
> you 
> >> want: 
> >> 
> >> (let [{:keys [day month year]} (bean some-date)] 
> >>  ...) 
> >> 
> >> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Jacob Strength <mypc...@gmail.com> 
> >> wrote: 
> >> > I'm just curious if it is possible to destructure a date object in 
> say a 
> >> > let 
> >> > form? 
> >> > For example can I do something like this: 
> >> > (let [{:keys [day month year]} some-date] 
> >> >  ...) 
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