Is pound-quote (hash-quote, #') in Clojure running the resolve and symbol functions?

Question

Perhaps you can help me find this in the docs. I\'m using pound-quote to be able to pass around unevaluated function names prior to execution. For example:

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Answer 1

#' is the reader macro for var. See http://clojure.org/special_forms#var and http://clojure.org/vars

(var foo) returns the var named by the symbol foo, which can hold any kind of value, including functions.