Chad Harrington wrote:
> I have a newbie question about anonymous functions. Why does the first form
> below work and the second form does not?
>
> user> ((fn [] "foo"))
> "foo"
>
> user> (#("foo"))
> ; Evaluation aborted.
fn and #() are not interchangeable. In the first example, you simply
return "foo". However, #("foo") expands to (fn [] ("foo")), so you end
up calling a string, which of course fails.
--
Jarkko
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