Hi Roelof, Just a general advice, for figuring out how small things like these work and why they don't work I find Lighttable (http://lighttable.com/) an awesome IDE. This is the best thing available to learn clojure (combined with a good book or online resource of course) and I would have to have IDEs with an instant inline REPL for different languages too while learning these.
However, what I usually did (and still sometimes do) is fire up Lighttable, open a barebone namespace, insert this function: (defn add-author [book new-author] (assoc book (conj :authors new-author))) and (add-author little-schemer {:name "Gerald J. Sussman"}) then evaluate both and just see what happens. Most of the times something failed and then it's easy to take one step back and just evaluate simpler things like: (conj :authors {:name "Gerald J. Sussman"}) or whatever the smallest example might be. This helps tremendously in learning and understanding what works and what doesn't work. Disclaimer: This post is not here to say: RTFM and stop posting questions, but it is here to show you a better way learning a language. So I hope you don't get me wrong and enjoy the funny clojure ride. Best Regards, Sven Am Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2014 12:01:18 UTC+1 schrieb Roelof Wobben: > > Hello, > > For a exercise I have to add something to the end of a existing map. > > So I thought this would work : > > (defn add-author [book new-author] > (assoc book (conj :authors new-author))) > > and call the function with : > > (add-author little-schemer {:name "Gerald J. Sussman"}) > > > then I see this error message : > > > ClassCastException clojure.lang.Keyword cannot be cast to > clojure.lang.IPersistentCollection clojure.core/conj (core.clj:83) > > > Roelof > > > > > -- 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/d/optout.