> As an aside, when playing around with quoting and unquoting, I noticed
> that the result of  ('+ 3 5) is 5. I'm not sure what I would have
> expected (maybe an error?) but it wasn't the third item of the list.
> Is there any reason for this?

>From http://clojure.org/data_structures:

Symbols, just like Keywords, implement IFn for invoke() of one argument (a map) 
with an optional second argument (a default value). For example('mysym 
my-hash-map :none) means the same as (get my-hash-map 'mysym :none).

So  ('+ 3 5)  means "Look up '+ in 3, returning what you find, or 5 if you 
can't find it.

Stu


Stuart Halloway
Clojure/core
http://clojure.com

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