to get the meta-data of a var (I'm guessing symbol n refers to a var...) 
you should call it on the var iself, not its value or symbol:

user=> (def ^{:some-meta 123} n 0)
#'user/n

user=> (meta n)
nil

user=> (meta 'n)
nil

user=> (meta #'n)
{:some-meta 123, :ns #<Namespace user>, :name n, :file "NO_SOURCE_PATH", 
:column 1, :line 1}

hth,
-Gianluca


On Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 4:00:59 PM UTC+2, Sarkis Karayan wrote:
>
>
> Why doesn't this work?
> user=> (meta ^{:some-meta 123} 'n)
> nil
>
> While this works:
> user=> (meta ^{:some-meta 123} (fn [n] n))
> {:some-meta 123}
>
> And this works too:
> user=> (meta (with-meta 'n {:some-meta 123}))
> {:some-meta 123}
>
>
> Is this intended behavior?  If so, what's the reasoning?
>
> Thanks,
> Sarkis
>
>

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