Many of the design choices in Clojure are aimed at resolving precisely these concerns. Quoted lists and literal lists are of course usually written '(f x) in mo

Many of the design choices in Clojure are aimed at resolving precisely these concerns. Quoted lists and literal lists are of course usually written '(f x) in most dialects, and Clojure uses [f x] for function arguments and binding lists. The only concern that remains is that (f x) could be a function call or a macro invokation. This is entirely by design, and is in fact a core idea of lisp that lets you build your own constructs with the same syntax as the language's native ones.