How to make a record from a sequence of values

Question

I have a simple record definition, for example

(defrecord User [name email place])

What is the best way to make a record having it\'s value

Answer 1

Update for Clojure 1.4

defrecord now defines ->User and map->User thus following in Goran's footstaps, one can now

(defmacro instantiate [rec args] `(apply ~(symbol (str "->" rec)) ~args))

which also works with non-literal sequences as in (instantiate User my-values). Alternatively, along the lines of map->User one can define a function seq->User

(defmacro def-seq-> [rec] `(defn ~(symbol (str "seq->" rec)) [arg#] (apply ~(symbol (str "->" rec)) arg#)))

(def-seq-> User)

which will allow (seq->User my-values).