I was looking clojure.core
's macro implementation of and
and I noticed that some of the let
bindings in this source file's macros end their variable name with and octothorpe (#
).
Upon further inspection with the following code...
(defn foo# [] 42)
(foo#) ; => 42
...I realized that octothorpe is just a valid symbol (at least when included on the end).
So, my question is, why do these core macros end their binding symbols with a hash character? Is there some specific implied meaning or convention I am missing here?