Idiomatic clojure map lookup by keyword

Question

Say I have a clojure map that uses keywords as its keys:

(def my-car {:color \"candy-apple red\" :horsepower 450})

I know that I can look u

Answer 1

From the library coding standards:

• Use keyword-first syntax to access properties on objects:

  (:property object-like-map)
  

• Use collection-first syntax to extract values from a collection (or use get if the collection might be nil).

  (collection-like-map key)
  (get collection-like-map key)