Symbols are functions. See
http://clojure.org/data_structures#Data%20Structures-Symbols
Thanks,
Ambrose
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Paul Sholtz <paul.sho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was messing around with the Clojure interpreter and typed this:
>
> user=> ('+ 3 4)
>
> The interpreter responded with "4".
>
> That's odd (but interesting)..
>
> Clearly if I had typed (+ 3 4), it would have responded with 7, and it I
> had typed '(3 4), it would have responded with a list (3 4), but why does
> this expression evaluate to "4"?
>
> Most other Lisps/Schemes I'm familiar with would throw an error at this
> point..
>
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