On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Cedric Greevey <cgree...@gmail.com> wrote:

> So ... any further objections, other than "it's unlikely anyone cares
> enough to bother actually making such a change"? :)


It breaks the uniformity of Clojure syntax.

Almost all sugar is prefix: you can identify syntax by looking to the left
of the form.

#{1}
(fn [a b & c])  (variable arity, left of "c")
#'var
'(1 2 3)
{:a 1}

I remember Rich Hickey explaining this in a discussion with Daniel Spiewak.

Ambrose

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