Oh and its rare (outside of macros) to use symbols like that. Usually you'd
use keywords.

(def object-locations
  {:whiskey :living-room})


On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Thomas Heller <th.hel...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Short and simple answer: NullPointerException
>
> (def object-locations nil)
>
> (object-locations 'bucket) will throw
> ('bucket object-locations) => nil
>
> HTH,
> /thomas
>
> On Wednesday, July 9, 2014 3:48:53 PM UTC+2, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>>
>> When you have:
>> (def object-locations {
>>      'whiskey   'living-room
>>      'bucket    'living-room
>>      'chain     'garden
>>      'frog      'garden
>>      'dummy     'nowhere
>>      'test      'nowhere
>>      })
>>
>> You can retrieve the location of the bucket with:
>>     (object-locations 'bucket)
>> and with:
>>     ('bucket object-locations)
>>
>> Personally I find the first better, but ‘Clojure Programming' uses the
>> second possibility. What is the better way and why?
>>
>> --
>> Cecil Westerhof
>>
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