Tagged Elements Issue?

[Dirk T.]

The result from evaluating (ns-refers *ns*) contains thinks like

#'clojure.core/+

for which I'm uncertain what is meant from the spec. It starts like a tagged value, but those require an alphabetic character following, which is not the case here (').
So should be whole thing be parsed as the symbol + with a namespace of #'clojure.core?

Does not seem right to me. Could someone please clarify?

[Dirk T.]

Ok, I found that this is the Var-Quote Macro.

Var-quote (#')
#'x ⇒ (var x)

So is #'clojure.core valid EDN? at all?

[Ryan Schmitt]

No, nor is it supposed to be, since Clojure programs are written in a superset of Edn. #' is a Clojure reader macro and var is a special form.

[Dirk T.]

Thanks!