On Dec 28, 2015 6:58 AM, "Ray Toal" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Throughout the Clojure documentation there are many references to forms.
>
> I know about special forms, macros, vars, symbols, keywords, integers,
doubles, ratios, sets, maps, lists, vectors, booleans, nil, etc.
>
> What exactly, though, is a form?

A syntactic unit, as opposed to a lexical unit?  Left paren is a lexical
unit, to "read it you have to find the following balanced right paren, and
if everything in between is syntactically correct you have a list form.  At
least that's how I think of it.

Gregg

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