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Clojure also makes working with hashes a whole lot more ergonomic with destructuring and symbol keys.

• fastball 4y ago
  Could you clarify a bit here? Python also has destructuring for its dicts and I'm not entirely sure what you mean by symbol keys.
  • geysersam 4y ago
    Symbol keys are string keys for the more sophisticated among us. See :some-name vs "some_name". ;)
    • iamevn 4y ago
      they're closer to a (namespace) global enum imo
  • andreareina 4y ago
    Python has tuple destructuring, which can be used with dict.items(). I'm talking about being able to destructure by name not position: name, address = some_dict You could fake it if you could ask for a tuple of specific entries: name, address = some_dict.pluck("name", "address")