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Fun article. Should also add in #anything, and discover the weird and wonderful world of the extensible reader.

If you can link me to some examples of this I'll be happy to add them.

(edit) I have a comment around the fact user defined reader macros are not supported in Clojure (save for a hack). Is this not the case anymore?

I think this is referring to the ability to the tagged literals api (set data-readers[1] and change/extend the various literal notations already provided by clojure (like #uuid and #inst)). The docs seem to believe that unqualified var names are reserved and you should fully-qualify your tags, but this seems to be more of a suggestion than a requirement.

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    *data-readers* 
[2] http://clojure.github.io/clojure/clojure.core-api.html#cloju...
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