Well there’s a reason it’s like that — ALL is actually a value, not just a sentinel or keyword. It’s found at com.rpl.specter/ALL. Keywords don’t form a DSL in

Well there’s a reason it’s like that — ALL is actually a value, not just a sentinel or keyword. It’s found at com.rpl.specter/ALL. Keywords don’t form a DSL in Specter, they just do keyword navigation into maps, the same way ‘0’ navigates into the first element of a list. This touches upon a really nice element of Specter, which is its pattern for reuse. Here’s a very real but deliberately simple example of using it: (def chat-threads {[“sova” “tekacs”] [{:text [“hey” “you there?”]} {:text [“line 1” “line 2”]}]}) (def ALL-TEXT [sr/ALL :text sr/ALL]) (defn text-for [chat] (sr/select [chat ALL-TEXT])) (def ALL-CHAT-TEXT [sr/MAP-VALS ALL-TEXT]) (text-for [“sova” “tekacs”]) ;=> [...] Here the navigator into a list, then the :text field and then the list is bottled simply by putting several navigators in a vector. Then, it can be used alongside other navigators in a first class fashion — [chat ALL-TEXT] is just a nested vector. :)