How can I convert a keyword to a string?

Question

In clojure, what is the idiomatic way to convert a keyword:

:some-keyword

to a string:

"some-keyword"

Answer 1

use name to do this:

user=> (name :some-keyword)
"some-keyword"

Answer 2

As Alex Ott mentionned, name is the best function for this, clojure.contrib also has a function you can call on any type: as-str which does this too:

(str :foo :bar)     ;;=> ":foo:bar"
(as-str :foo :bar)  ;;=> "foobar" 

See http://clojure.github.com/clojure-contrib/string-api.html#clojure.contrib.string/as-str