On 18/01/14, Alex Miller wrote: > I have some sympathy for this view of things as it was a question I had > while learning Clojure as well. > > The general justification for the current behavior is that the thing being > bound is always on the left and the expression defining it is always on the > right.
That's not really true. For example: (let [{:keys (foo bar)} map] ...) Here it is actually on the "right" (noting that "left" and "right" are very relative in this case). If I were to guess, I would say that the example above is the reason for the design – :keys seem useful more often than naming individual keys. Of course, I'm just guessing. -- Stefan Kanev ¦ @skanev ¦ http://skanev.com/ Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy. -- -- 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/groups/opt_out.