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dhamidi on May 23, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Wisp: a homoiconic JS dialect with Clojure syntax,...

To my knowledge, keywords are actually functions in Clojure, which do have an equivalent in JS. "Looks more like Clojure" seems like a good enough reason to me.

i_s on May 24, 2013 | [–]

Keywords implement many interfaces, function (IFn) being one of them. See this line in the clojure source code:

  public class Keyword implements IFn, Comparable, Named, Serializable, IHashEq

https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/jvm/cloju...

adrusi on May 24, 2013 | [–]

They can be used as functions, but I think they're implemented differently for optimization. Could be wrong.

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