> - Reader macros are an interesting feature, but do move away from the syntactic regularity of LISP -- and were, AFAIK, explicitly rejected in Clojure That do

> - Reader macros are an interesting feature, but do move away from the syntactic regularity of LISP -- and were, AFAIK, explicitly rejected in Clojure That does not make sense to me since clojure introduced explicit irregular syntax for things like maps and vectors. In Common Lisp the "we-the-language-developers can introduce special typography but the users cannot" thing, in constrast, doesn't exist .