The problem with this approach is if your map is a record (e.g. made with 
defrecord) it will not work. 

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On Jan 28, 2013, at 8:31 PM, AtKaaZ <[email protected]> wrote:

> I would use (map :keyword) myself, for that exact reason(because I'm into 
> fail-fast), but only when I know the map is expected to never be nil at this 
> point(but likely I'll do the program in such a way that this point won't be 
> reached with a nil map in the first place), so that if it happens that the 
> map is nil it will throw exception at this point and it will stop the bug 
> propagating further, but if I were to use (:keyword map) it may err later or 
> never. Sure I could use other ways to test for nil, but just in case I forget 
> to do so, (map :keyword) would save me where (:keyword map) would just 
> continue. I note that it's idiomatic clojure to use the latter variant (ie. 
> non-fail-fast).
> 
> - says the guy(me) that hasn't done any program(in clojure anyway)
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:09 AM, James Xu <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> (:Keyword map) is preferred, because keyword itself can never be nil, while 
>> it's possible for map, you might be interested to have a look at: 
>> https://github.com/bbatsov/clojure-style-guide
>> 
>> From: Jonathon McKitrick <[email protected]>
>> Reply-To: <[email protected]>
>> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:00:01 -0800 (PST)
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Best practice - (:keyword map) versus (map :keyword)
>> 
>> Either one works, is there any kind of guideline on which to prefer, when?  
>> Or is it entirely personal preference?  It seems each way could be more 
>> readable in different circumstances....
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