Background

I have a filter to where I am passing an anonymous function. In this function I want to check that the key of the tuple I am evaluation is a string and if so return true, like in the following code:

:persistent_term.put("hello", :world)

:persistent_term.get() 
|> Enum.filter(fn {key, _val} when is_binary(key)-> true end)

Error

However, when I do so, I get an error:

** (FunctionClauseError) no function clause matching in :erl_eval."-inside-an-interpreted-fun-"/1    
    
    The following arguments were given to :erl_eval."-inside-an-interpreted-fun-"/1:
    
        # 1
        {Logger.Config.DeletedHandlers,
         [
           {:primary, %{level: :notice}},
           {:default, :logger_std_h,
            %{
              config: %{
                burst_limit_enable: true,
                burst_limit_max_count: 500,
                burst_limit_window_time: 1000,
                drop_mode_qlen: 200,
                filesync_repeat_interval: :no_repeat,
                flush_qlen: 1000,
                overload_kill_enable: false,
                overload_kill_mem_size: 3000000,
                overload_kill_qlen: 20000,
                overload_kill_restart_after: 5000,
                sync_mode_qlen: 10,
                type: :standard_io
              },
              filter_default: :stop,
              filters: [
                remote_gl: {&:logger_filters.remote_gl/2, :stop},
                domain: {&:logger_filters.domain/2, {:log, :super, [:otp, :sasl]}},
                no_domain: {&:logger_filters.domain/2, {:log, :undefined, []}}
              ],
              formatter: {:logger_formatter, %{legacy_header: true, single_line: false}},
              id: :default,
              level: :all,
              module: :logger_std_h
            }}
         ]}
    
    (stdlib) :erl_eval."-inside-an-interpreted-fun-"/1
    (stdlib) erl_eval.erl:829: :erl_eval.eval_fun/6
    (elixir) lib/enum.ex:2942: Enum.filter_list/2

What really makes this confusing is that a similar function works as expected:

:persistent_term.get()
    |> Enum.filter(fn {key, _val} -> if is_binary(key) do true else false end end)

They both do the same, except the second one works and the first one doesn’t. According to the documentation I know I can use guards in anonymous functions:

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/master/guards.html#where-guards-can-be-used

So, it is clear to me that I am doing something wrong.

Questions

1 .What am I missing?
2. Is this the most compact way of verifying if a key is a string?