kwatford
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I've been using assoc-in, get-in, etc, to work with nested maps, but I
recently needed a dissoc-in to free up unneeded indexes and such. I
didn't see one, so does this look about right?
(defn dissoc-in [m keys]
(if (<= (count keys) 1)
(dissoc m (first keys))
(let [k (last keys)
restkeys (butlast keys)
submap (dissoc (get-in m restkeys) k)]
(if (empty? submap)
(recur m restkeys)
(assoc-in m restkeys submap)))))