I'm trying to understand quoting in clojure and came across this article. While trying out the examples, I'm confused about the order of evaluation of quoting expressions.
`(~`'baz)
;; ↪ ('user/baz)
`(~'`baz)
;; ↪ ('user/baz)
Why do both the above expressions evaluate to ('user/baz)? Shouldn't the first one evaluate to ('baz)?
Putting an explanation into a code block because backticks mess up the formatting. Note that I don't use strict Clojure, mixing inputs with outputs, because it's easier to explain that way, at least for me.
`'bar and '`bar are the same because:
- 'bar is (quote bar)
> `(quote bar) is (`quote `bar) which is (quote user/bar)
- `bar is user/bar
> 'user/bar is (quote user/bar)