I'm not enough of an expert on Clojure or Lisp to answer (my lisp knowledge is extrapolated from scheme in college). I believe that Rich Hickey said that havin

I'm not enough of an expert on Clojure or Lisp to answer (my lisp knowledge is extrapolated from scheme in college). I believe that Rich Hickey said that having special notation for vectors (and for maps, I remember now) was about, basically, yes, that syntactic sugar. He was specifically comparing to lists in () which are somewhat indistinguishable from function calls in (), hence an example of overloaded parentheses.