Yes, EDN is S-expressions plus a bunch of semantic rules. Parsing EDN is quite a bit more complex than just parsing S-expressions, just because you need to supp

Yes, EDN is S-expressions plus a bunch of semantic rules. Parsing EDN is quite a bit more complex than just parsing S-expressions, just because you need to support a bunch of built in types, as well as arbitrary exensions through 'tags'. The tag system is quite brilliant though.