According to the link below, ML records are mostly handled by hash-maps in Clojure, except that there’s no canonical key/val order or strict typing by default.

ML record:

  {first = "John", last = "Doe", age = 150, balance = 0.12}

Clojure hash-map:

  {:first "John", :last "Doe", :age 150, :balance 0.12}

Destructuring a record in an ML function:

  fun full_name{first:string,last:string,age:int,balance:real}:string =
    first ^ " " ^ last

(It’s unclear from the example whether or not all of the destructured values are required in the function signature. I hope they are not, but I left them in since I don’t know. The caret positioning raises further questions.)

Destructuring a map in a Clojure function:

  (defn full-name [{:keys [first last]}]
    (str first “ “ last))

I don’t know if I’m missing something that ML offers with its records aside from more strict typing, which you can also have in Clojure when it’s useful. In both cases, it looks like it’s applied at the function declaration and not the record declaration.

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs312/2008sp/recitations/...

Clojure has records too.