Symbols in REPL are identical about clojerl HOT 3 CLOSED

Hi @arpunk 👋 !

This is a known difference. identical? in Clojure JVM (which "Tests if 2 arguments are the same object ") ends up using the JVM operator == through the clojure.lang.Util/identical method:

static public boolean identical(Object k1, Object k2){	
     return k1 == k2;
}

There are no objects in the BEAM, there are only values, so identical? ends up being the same as =.

Do you think it would be better and less confusing if we didn't have identical? at all available in Clojerl?

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Hey @jfacorro, hello!

I think it's less confusing in Clojerl as I'd expect symbols 'a and 'a to be identical but I'm just starting out with Clojure so I was just wondering about the difference and your explanation makes sense!

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I'm glad to hear that it makes sense 😊

I will close this issue if that's OK with you. Please feel free to reopen it if you have any further questions.

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