They're just adding more default literals to the language. Clojure already has strings "like this", characters \l \i \k \e \t \h \i \s, numbers 1234, regex #".*

They're just adding more default literals to the language. Clojure already has strings "like this", characters \l \i \k \e \t \h \i \s, numbers 1234, regex #".*". Now you can have dates, times, or presumably some other literal that's applicable to your domain.