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I have some code which works after replacing read-string with load-string. It is good that the code works, but I would like to know why. What is the difference between the two clojure functions?
Use load-string to sequentially read and evaluate the set of forms contained in the
string
Use read-string to read one object from the string s
(both quoted from Clojure API)
Load-string will evaluate your string as a Clojure expression, and read-string takes the string and returns it as the found data structure, in which case might be an expression.
Protip:
(load-string "(+ 1 2)")and(eval (read-string "(+ 1 2)"))will give you the same result, which is 3