>
> But I have two translation problems, I want to pose before going to
> sleep (its pitch dark in Europe :). First the easy one:
>
> Common Lisp
> (defun describe-path (path)
>  `(there is a ,(second path) going ,(first path) from here.))
>
> My Clojure version, I use a map:
> (defn describe-path [path]
>        (let [what (path :kind) where (path :direction)]
>    (concat '(there is a) (list what) '(going) (list where) '(from
> here.))))
>
> Thats much less elegant. Is there a nicer way?
>

It looks like you really want a formated string (concat returns a sequence
not a string). You could use:

(defn describe-path [path]
    (format "this is a, %s, going, %s, from here" (path :kind) (path
:direction)))

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