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Re:Learning Clojure: comparing with Java streams by grzm on Sunday November 04, 2018 @03:43PM (#18377973)
Nit: Clojure does not have user-defined reader macros. There are quite a few built-in reader macros, including #? added for reader conditionals.
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Re:Learning Clojure: comparing with Java streams by kazinator on Sunday November 04, 2018 @04:28PM (#18378152)
By this definition of terms, every Lisp dialect that ever existed had reader macros because it accumulated characters into tokens, and dispatched a recursive scan upon encountering (.
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Re:Learning Clojure: comparing with Java streams by didibus on Sunday November 04, 2018 @09:10PM (#18379341)
Fair enough, though definitly a nitpick :p
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