I found it @val_waeselynck! It was me being silly and not adding the right dependency *sigh* … thanks for your help!

@codxse Because of:

Ie, '+ is not the same as +

A symbol looks itself up in a map, just like keywords.

Try ((resolve '+) 2 8)

ahh. I c, so, how do I change read '+ as + in quote?

You can do (list 1 + 1) or resolve afterwards

great. thanks rauh 🙂

@codxse How about constructing a list from the elements in expr and then eval'ing them?

Whoops didn't see that had already been suggested

once again, if quote doesn't resolve to its value, what about syntax quote? here my code again:

Understood. I manage to get it. Thanks.

karolisl you might want to take a look at spec: https://clojure.org/guides/spec

specifically https://clojure.org/guides/spec#_spec_ing_functions

(let [{:keys [a b] :as x} {:k 1}]
  a)

(let [{:keys [a b] :as x} {:k 1}]
  x)

ok right, i know why

got my wires crossed, thats looking for the values to those keys

yep

take a look at this, should clear things up 🙂 https://clojure.org/guides/destructuring#_associative_destructuring