clojure.core/var?

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Type: function Added: Clojure 1.0 Examples: 2 Runnable: 0

([v])

Returns true if v is of type clojure.lang.Var

Examples

by boxie on 2010-11-08 . May have evaluation errors. ▶

(def my-symbol) (var? #'my-symbol) => true (var? (var my-symbol)) => true (var? (def my-symbol2)) => true

by AtKaaZ on 2013-02-28 . May have evaluation errors. ▶

=> *clojure-version* {:major 1, :minor 5, :incremental 0, :qualifier "RC17"} => var? #<core$var_QMARK_ clojure.core$var_QMARK_@669251cc> => (var?) ;ArityException Wrong number of args (0) passed to: core$var-QMARK- clojure.lang.AFn.throwArity (AFn.java:437) => (var? 1) false => (var? defn) ;CompilerException java.lang.RuntimeException: Can't take value of a macro: #'clojure.core/defn, compiling:(NO_SOURCE_PATH:1:1) => (var? #'defn) true => (var? #'defn 1 2 3 4) ;ArityException Wrong number of args (5) passed to: core$var-QMARK- clojure.lang.AFn.throwArity (AFn.java:437) => (var? (var defn)) true => (var? apply) false => (var? #'apply) true

See also

• clojure.core/def (4)
• clojure.core/var (0)
• clojure.core/var-get (1)
• clojure.core/var-set (1)
• clojure.core/with-local-vars (0)

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