Clojure s-expressions actually have syntax for vectors, maps, and sets (in addition to the ones mentioned in TFA): {:k1 v1, :k2 v2} ; curly braces for ma

Clojure s-expressions actually have syntax for vectors, maps, and sets (in addition to the ones mentioned in TFA): {:k1 v1, :k2 v2} ; curly braces for maps [v1 v2 v3] ; square brackets for vectors #{v1 v2 v3} ; pound-curly for sets Clojure's reader also provides some mechanisms for adding readable values, which is awesome for serialization and interchange. There's more info here: http://clojure.org/reader http://clojure.org/reader