Getting Clojure

You Got Data On My Code!

If you have read this far you probably noticed something odd about the syntax of Clojure code: it looks a lot like the syntax of Clojure data literals. If, for example, you started with this bit of nonsensical Clojure data:

read/examples.clj

;; Just some data: Note the quote.

'(helvetica times-roman [comic-sans]
  (futura gil-sans
    (courier "All the fonts I have loved!")))

you know you have a four-element list that contains a couple of symbols along with a vector and another list. But by swapping out the symbols and changing contents of the string, you can transform that data into something convincingly codelike:

;; Still just data -- note the quote.

'(defn print-greeting [preferred-customer]
  (if