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.

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