Other way round. It behaves like a keyword, looking itself up in a
map:
('x '{x 1 y 2}) yields 2. You see the same behavior with (reduce :and
[5 10]), yielding 10.
On Nov 23, 9:32 pm, Sean Corfield <seancorfi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> @lloyda2 posted on Twitter: (reduce 'and '(false true)) => true ...Huh?
>
> I must admit, it looked odd to me... but I realized (after some REPL
> experimentation) this seems to be equivalent to ('some-symbol
> :some-key :some-default) and that attempts (and fails) to somehow
> lookup :some-key in 'some-symbol and thus returns the default
> supplied, :some-default - or, in the OP's case ('and false true) which
> yields true.
>
> Can someone provide a bit more insight into why clojure.lang.Symbol
> behaves like a collection and what, if any elements does it have? It
> just seems like weird behavior and I can't imagine what use case this
> addresses...
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