This is from 2008 and from a quick skim seems ok, but delves unnecessarily into some distinctions between vars and symbols and stuff that's totally not helpful

This is from 2008 and from a quick skim seems ok, but delves unnecessarily into some distinctions between vars and symbols and stuff that's totally not helpful for someone new to Lisp. I also don't think "str" is a special form, is it? https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/f5f827ac9fbb87e770d25007472504403ed3d7a6/src/clj/clojure/core.clj#L487 https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/f5f827ac9fbb87e770d2...