On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Alan Malloy <a...@malloys.org> wrote:
> Other way round. It behaves like a keyword, looking itself up in a
> map:
> ('x '{x 1 y 2}) yields 2. You see the same behavior with (reduce :and
> [5 10]), yielding 10.

Ah... I didn't realize that the lookup could be done without an
exception on non-collections!

(:a 1 2) yields 2 which surprises me a bit... I'd expect an error
because 1 is not a collection that :a can look itself up in.

Learn something new every day! :)
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