[hota_mazi]

Everyone who uses Clojure, and even people who don't, but know Lisp, understand the point: since parentheses are used in Lisp to delineate everything, it makes sense to use a different pair of symbols to make parameter lists stand out more.

Maybe saying it's "completely pointless. It literally serves no purpose" is a bit overly dramatic, don't you think?

You could have limited yourself to saying you don't personally like it because it breaks with tradition.

[kazinator]

> it makes sense to use a different pair of symbols to make parameter lists stand out more.

Quite simply, no, it doesn't.

> you don't personally like it because it breaks with tradition.

Nope! I don't impersonally like it, because it's a gratuitous inconsistency which doesn't do anything. It's not technically justified in any way.

How does it make sense to have the formal parameter stand out? Why don't we want the function body to stand out? (fn (a b) [+ a b])?

Don't the parameters already stand out by being on their own line (usually)?

   (defn (a b)  ;; <-- sticks out like sore thumb
     ...) 

If you think something deserves to stand out in code, can't you teach your editor to highlight it?

Where are the numbers to back all this "sense"?