I think the article is overly focused on small, pragmatic syntax issues without explaining how the underlying language and runtime have _enabled_ them.
It might be interesting to discuss _why_ keywords or maps or sets can work as functions, by implementing the IFn interface. Perhaps explain why homoiconicity and macros enable things like thread-first and -last, and talk about how we can implement our own reader literals.
I think the article is overly focused on small, pragmatic syntax issues without explaining how the underlying language and runtime have _enabled_ them.
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I think the article is overly focused on small, pragmatic syntax issues without explaining how the underlying language and runtime have _enabled_ them.
It might be interesting to discuss _why_ keywords or maps or sets can work as functions, by implementing the IFn interface. Perhaps explain why homoiconicity and macros enable things like thread-first and -last, and talk about how we can implement our own reader literals.
That was kinda the whole point of the post.
Sounds like you have a nice topic there for your next blog post.