On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 16:48, Anton Vodonosov <avodono...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Regarding the idea that a keyword is an identifier that designates itself,
> while a symbol is a keyword that designates something else.
>
> Keys in config file map do not designate themselves, they designate the
> corresponding map values.
>
> {username "vasya" email "a@b.c"}
>
Sure, but if I'm reading the edn spec correctly, the intention is that
symbols *in isolation* should identify something. So if I just wrote:
username
What does that identity? If it has no identity beyond itself, then it
should be a keyword. Contrast that to a symbol like:
clojure.core/conj
We know that symbol identifies a clojure function. Even outside of a map,
it has an external identity.
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