Clojure - map values

Question

I'm trying get a clojure function to detect if the value passed is a map. For example,

user=> (if-map {:foo 1}) ;Should return true
true 
user=> (if-map "hello") ;Returns false
false

Is there a pre-built function serving this already?

Answer 1

Yes, map? is the inbuilt function

(map? {:a 1})
=> true
(map? [1])
=> false

• Coding active: conj.io looks like a great resource. would indeed be helpful! :)
• Thumbnail: Up to a point, Lord Copper: (map? x) returns whether x implements IPersistentMap. It could be something other than a clojure.lang.PersistentHashMap or other built-in map implementation. But it is what you ought to want to know: Clojure is built around interfaces, not specific implementations.
• Mark Fisher: umm. yeah. i guess. she asked for checking a standard clojure map. in clojure. as per tag clojure, and as per the question "Clojure - map values", so i'm not getting your point here. does your comment add anything here? if there's an issue with my answer, please provide a better one