There are other advantages. I occasionally find myself using syntax-quote for refactoring. Let’s say I have a test like this: (let [cases [{:in [1 2 3] :ou

There are other advantages. I occasionally find myself using syntax-quote for refactoring. Let’s say I have a test like this: (let [cases [{:in [1 2 3] :out [2 4 6]} ;; ... ]] (doseq [{:keys [in out]} cases] (is (= out (test-fn in))))) If I want to inline the test cases, I can rewrite it like this (let [cases [{:in [1 2 3] :out [2 4 6]} ;; ... ]] (map (fn [{:keys [in out]}] `(is (= ~out (test-fn ~in)))) cases)) Then eval that in the repl and copy the result back into the test file. It’s a bit clunky because the repl output uses fully qualified symbols, but cleaning that up is usually faster that manually typing out the code it generates.