Not exactly documentation, but
https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/1.2.x/src/jvm/clojure/lang/Compiler.java#L37

On Feb 11, 1:38 pm, Ken Wesson <kwess...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Konrad Hinsen
>
> <konrad.hin...@fastmail.net> wrote:
> > At first glance, it seems that there are few more special forms that need
> > special treatment. I see fn*, let*, loop*, and try, but there is also
> > deftype* and reify* that have peculiar requirements
>
> Damn. Those weren't listed on any of the documentation pages that list
> special forms.
>
> > and depending on how your algorithm works in detail, you also must consider 
> > quote,
> > var, def and new specially.
>
> Hm. You may be right. For instance, it looks like new always treats
> its arg as a classname, even if it's locally shadowed:
>
> user=> (new 3 11)
> IllegalArgumentException
> user=> (let [Integer 3] (new Integer 11))
> 11
>
> I'll look into this further.
>
> Is there documentation anywhere that lists *all* of the lowest-level
> (true, like fn* and unlike fn) special forms?

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