#2 - The Reader
May 30, 2016•54 min
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Episode description
Defn Episode #02 - The Reader
[ a little news: spec ]
The wonders of the Reader
- Compare to the C pre-processor
- How it underpins the language
- Reader forms
- EDN / Transit
- Tagged literals
- Reader Conditionals (1.7+)
- clojure.tools.reader
- Finally, why no user defined reader macros (as in Common Lisp and Scheme)?
References
The Data-Reader's Guide to the Galaxy (Clojure West, 2013) by Steve Miner
Spyscope by David Greenberg
More information and links at the DEFN website
https://defn.audio/2016/05/30/episode-02-the-reader/
Our thanks to Ptzery for the intro and outro music (Melon Hamburger)
https://soundcloud.com/ptzery/
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