Question

Considering that valid clojure form:

    > (let [a 16 b 8] (/ a b))
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I am trying to construct it by hand in order to feed it into an eval call. I am rejected by the repl well before:

> (list 'let '[ 'a '16 'b '8 '] '(/ a b) )
RuntimeException Unmatched delimiter: ]  clojure.lang.Util.runtimeException (Util.java:156)
(/ a b)
RuntimeException Unmatched delimiter: )  clojure.lang.Util.runtimeException (Util.java:156)

Quoting the array characters [] is not enough. Indeed, the following expression (removing [ and ]) is ok:

> (list 'let  'a '16 'b '8  '(/ a b) )
(let a 16 b 8 (/ a b))

What is wrong with that construction? And how can I workaround that please? Is there any special form to quote [ and ] characters?

Answer 1

You can quote the entire vector:

(list 'let '[a 16 b 8] '(/ a b))