In a word, no. :-) Records and maps share an API. Maps can be used as anonymous records. Records generally should not be used as maps.
My address information is a record (whether you bother to create "Address" or just throw it into a plain ol' map). Everyone's address information keyed by SSN is a map. Stu > Maybe I"m just getting stuck on semantics, but I'm confused. If maps are > collections, and records function as maps, aren't records also collections? > > Steve > > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Stuart Halloway <stuart.hallo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > If records implemented IFn, you could treat them as collections, which they > are not. There is an asymmetry here: Maps can be used as (impoverished but > easy) records, but the reverse is not true: > > (:foo x) ; x is logically a record (though might be a map for > simplicity). > (x :foo) ; x is a collection (not a record, entity, etc.) > > Records not implementing IFn forces you to do what you should do anyway -- > access records with the keyword first. > > Stu > >> >> Hi BG, >> It is a common mistake to think that callability, corresponding to the >> clojure.lang.IFn interface, is part of the persistent map contract >> (I've done it myself, as did many others a Conj labs :). It is not. It >> is actually just a feature of clojure.lang.PersistentHashMap (and the >> other clojure map implementations). >> >> >> While I get that part, I wonder why records do not implement IFn, it'd be >> convenient if they did. >> >> -- >> 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 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 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 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
