Brian Craft <craft.br...@gmail.com> writes:

> I know I saw an explanation of this on some obscure page, but I can't
> find it now. What's up with the symbols with stars at front & end?

It's a convention that dynamic vars have "hearmuffs".

  (def ^:dynamic *foo*)

Not everyone uses it, and the earmuffs themselves have no meaning to
clojure.  (I think in some older clojure version (1.1?), vars with
earmuffs were automatically made dynamic, but that long ago.)

Bye,
Tassilo

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