In "Programming Clojure" Stuart Halloway says:
It is important to note that the metadata reader macro is not the same
as with-meta. The metadata reader macro adds metadata for the
compiler, and with-meta adds metadata for your own data:
(def ^{:testdata true} foo (with-meta [1 2 3] {:order :ascending}))
(Note: example changed to 1.2 style syntax)
He then shows the difference between (meta foo) and (meta #'foo).
However, it looks like I can accomplish the same thing with
(def ^{:testdata true} foo2 ^{:order :ascending} [1 2 3])
So, is there really any difference between with-data and the reader
macro?
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