Special forms have no :ns tag about compliment HOT 5 CLOSED

No, I don't think so. Special forms are special because they are defined in clojure.lang.Compiler, not in clojure.core. Namespace doesn't make sense for them.

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Special forms are special because they are defined in clojure.lang.Compiler, not in clojure.core

Of course. I only ask as it seems ambiguous to me as to whether they should be considered to be, in a sense, part of core. For example they're included in the API documentation for clojure.core: http://clojure.github.io/clojure/clojure.core-api.html#clojure.core/do - but maybe that's just because there isn't any other sensible place in the API docs for them to go :-).

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clojure.core has many weird things because of the limited runtime, and explicitly attaching the docs to symbols is one of them. Anyway I don't see how pretending that special forms belong to a namespace achieves anything. After all, frontend can itself decide to attach clojure.core ns to a special form if it wants to.

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Yeah, that definitely makes sense. I considered the frontend doing it - cljs.core complicates this as the frontend generally doesn't know if it's dealing with Clojure or ClojureScript - but as you say, it doesn't really achieve anything. Thanks for considering regardless.

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No problem. If there are technical reasons for doing this (compatibility, etc.), tell me and I will change the current behavior.

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