What is the difference between `#^` type hint and `^` type hint?

Question

I have seen type hints in both styles, for example, clojure-contrib.server-socket writes:

(.close #^ServerSocket (:server-socket server))

And Clojure's java-interop document uses only ^ to do type hinting.

Is there any difference between the two?

Answer 1

The #^ syntax is deprecated in favor of the ^ syntax. See previous question.