But we still don't know why it behaves like this and for what
reason..... does (:a 1 2) returns 2 make any sense??
On Nov 24, 3:30 pm, Sean Corfield <seancorfi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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