Clojure: name function

Clojure: name function

The 'name' function is a clojure function that returns the string for a keyword, symbol, or string. name - function Usage: (name x) Returns the name String of a string, symbol or keyword. At first glace this might not seem that interesting; however, it's good to know 'name' if you've ever been surprised by (str :foo) => ":foo". If you have a ruby background (as I do), you probably expected the result to be "foo", spent a bit of time looking, and found that (name :foo) was actually what you were looking for. That's helpful, but not particularly exciting. Perhaps a more interesting application of name is the ability to normalize all keys as strings and destructure . For example, say you're designing a library that monitors threads and you want to be able to pass in warning and error thresholds. Usage of your functions may look like the following examples (monitored-threads/c...

Full article: http://blog.jayfields.com/2012/06/clojure-name-function.html