One of my favourite things about Clojure, is constantly discovering new, and usually shorter ways of re-writing code. An example I discovered today has to do with maintaining a particular ordering in a map. When creating html lists using hiccup one needs to make sure the columns of the table all line up. This can be difficult when using a map since the ordering of a map is not defined.

Fear no longer, today I discovered sorted-map-by. This creates a map which maintains an order as defined by a comparator. So here is the easy way I came up with to keep a map in a particular ordering: