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 > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.