(Edit: figured it out! :D)

hey @vanrysss haven't used hikaricp but if the pool is assigned to a top level var then at compile time- when the namespace is read and top level vars are evaluated- the pool will be instantiated and therefore may initiate connections to the db.

I'm having trouble understanding the destructuring in this function:

(defn split-sentence [{:keys [sentence]}]
  (map (fn [word] {:word word}) (clojure.string/split sentence #"\s")))

[{assign-go :assign-from}] 

hey @drewverlee see https://gist.github.com/john2x/e1dca953548bfdfb9844#shortcuts

after https://gist.github.com/john2x/e1dca953548bfdfb9844#maps

:keys [sentence] means that calling (split-sentence {:sentence "The quick brown fox..."}) will result in the local symbol sentence being bound to "The quick brown fox...."

@jonahbenton, thanks! you answer plus reading (this)[https://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/167882/understanding-clojure-keywords] helped me fine tune my understanding of keywords and destructuring:

super!