The point was not "Coffeescript is better than Clojure", it was "destructuring assignment (like in Coffeescript, for instance) is a better solution than the one proposed in the post". If Clojure has sophisticated destructuring assignment, awesome. Use that instead.
I suppose I failed to see how destructuring assignment on hash-maps accomplishes anything interesting at all related to the post. The post eliminates hash-maps altogether.
