The last four days have been in exercise in frustration as I have tried
four different static site generators, all of which gave me serious fits
with one exception: Cryogen.* That has led me consider that it might be a
good time to dive into Clojure. Though I am new to Clojure, I've been
eyeing it for some time. Reading over numerous examples, there is one thing
about reading Clojure code that I find a bit hard to take -- keywords. Take
the example of metadata for a Cryogen post:
{:title "First Post!"
:layout :post
:date "2016-01-01"
:tags ["tag1" "tag3"]}
It's perfectly understandable, of course, but I can't help but feel a gut
reaction that is should be:
{title: "First Post!"
layout: :post
date: "2016-01-01"
tags: ["tag1" "tag3"]}
And this is true for what seem to be most uses of keywords. Another example:
(client/get "http://example.com";
{:headers {:foo ["bar" "baz"], :eggplant "quux"}})
would just read so much better as:
(client/get "http://example.com";
{headers: {foo: ["bar" "baz"], eggplant: "quux"}})
So I was wondering, is there any reason Clojure couldn't *also* support
keywords with a backside colon notation?
*I had only one issue with Cryogen, for which the error message was
completely useless. But I was able to work out that I was missing a
`:layout` in a post's metadata.
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