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/