How can I add a keyword to an existing clojure.lang.PersistentArrayMap?

How can I add a keyword to an existing clojure.lang.PersistentArrayMap? For example, given:

(def options {:abc :xyz})

How can I add a new keyword entry? Something like: :def. So that I will have:

{:abc :def :xyz}

Also, is there an idomatic way to only add it if it’s missing?

A map is a dictionary and requires a value for every key so the following is not possible
{:abc :def :xyz}.

You can add an entry with assoc.
(assoc options :foo :bar) which yields a new map {:abc :xyz :foo :bar}

To add only if a key is missing use merge
(merge {:abc :baz :foo :bar} options) will yield {:abc :xyz :foo :bar}.

Maybe you want a set?
(def options #{:abc :xyz})

Then you could (conj options :def) which would yield #{:abc :xyz :def}.

Adding to a set is idempotent so (conj options :abc) yields #{:abc :xyz}

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Okay. I guess I was confused with some code I was looking at. I thought I had a function parameter which was a PersistentArrayMap of keywords. However, it was probably a Vector or List

Thanks.

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