That is a very good explanation.

On Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Kevin Downey wrote:  
> refs, called as a function, try to call the value they hold as a
> function with the given arguments
>  
> ((first @my-contacts) :fname) ~= (:fname @(first @my-contacts))
>  
> basically you have two levels of refs, but are only derefing once, but
> by happy accident ((first @my-contacts) :fname) works
>  
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 4:20 PM, qhfgva <[email protected] 
> (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> > I was trying out an example from Practical Clojure and I don't
> > understand why I get different results below? Can someone enlighten
> > me?
> >  
> > user=> @my-contacts
> > [#<Ref@1e26602: {:fname "Luke", :lname "VanderHart"}> #<Ref@8ca8ac:
> > {:fname "Stuart", :lname "Sierra"}> #<Ref@7056d5: {:fname
> > "John", :lname "Doe"}>]
> > user=> (:fname (first @my-contacts))
> > nil
> > user=> ((first @my-contacts) :fname)
> > "Luke"
> >  
> > Why would the placement of :fname change how it looks up? I would
> > expect to need a deref to be able to get the "Luke" value.
> >  
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> And what is good, Phaedrus,
> And what is not good—
> Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
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