Explain var meta not evaluated

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Since Apr 12, 2020.

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In the Differences from Clojure page, in the Metadata section, I was thinking of adding some documentation that meta placed on vars is not evaluated, but left as a symbol, as illustrated by the following REPL interaction:

cljs.user=> (def foo :foo-val)
#'cljs.user/foo
cljs.user=> (def ^foo xs ^foo [])
#'cljs.user/xs
cljs.user=> (:tag (meta xs))
:foo-val
cljs.user=> (:tag (meta #'xs))
foo

Note that in Clojure, the last form would evaluate to :foo-val.

If this is indeed correct, willing to write up some copy for that section to cover the difference.

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