I had the same issue a couple of months ago. The thing to understand
is that 'a is NOT a symbol. Actually, it evaluates to a symbol, which
is a different thing.
When you write ^{:a 1} 'a, it is the same as writing ^{:a 1} (quote
a). So the metadata gets applied to the entire form, not the symbol.
When you write '^{:a 1} a, it is the same as writing (quote ^{:a 1}
a). So the metadata gets applied to the symbol.
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