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lucian1900 on Oct 26, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Practical Optional Type System for Clojure

All of Clojure's literals desugar to calls. They're reader macros you can't add to.

wooby on Oct 26, 2012 [–]

My point is that they desugar directly to data structures (instantiated in Java, in LispReader) instead of operation forms that evaluate to data structures.

See vector creation: https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/52633274225370dfb058...

lucian1900 on Oct 27, 2012 | [–]

I don't see how that distinction is useful.

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