Clojurians Log v2

I don't believe so. There's nothing special about them as far as Clojure is concerned. They're just regular symbols in a vector.

Right. I could add special handling for symbols starting with ?, but I’m not sure what the scope should be - current file? Top-level form? I’m also not sure if variables with that naming convention are used in other ways.

Those are my questions as well

afaik ?anything is a valid Clojure symbol, so i'd say the scope would be the same as any other Clojure symbol

i think core.logic uses this convention as well

you could stop quoting your Datalog queries if you had a def for each ?thing 🙂

I don't think that would be a good idea

Yes, ?anything is a valid symbol. But symbols on their own don’t have a scope, the scope is implied by the thing (fn, macro, datalog query, core.logic) using them. I have a similar problem with hiccup support - since everything is data, there’s nothing to say what is a datalog query in the code unless you pass an explicit data structure to a function which is well-known to accept one.

@mike.j.cusack of course, it's a terrible idea 🙂 my point was, it would work because ?these ?are ?just ?symbols