# without-meta Return a copy of the value with its metadata stripped, sharing the same payload. Values that carry no metadata (or whose kind cannot carry any) are returned unchanged. Useful for display or serialization when side-channel metadata should not be shown. ## Syntax

[without-meta $value]

## Parameters - `$value` — Any value; metadata-capable kinds are map, tagged map, vector, set, string, and keyword. ## Examples

def v [with-meta :deepseek %{doc "x"}]
[meta $v]                  # → %{:doc "x"}
[meta [without-meta $v]]   # → nil
[without-meta 42]          # → 42

## Returns The value with no attached metadata; kind and payload are preserved, and a value without metadata is returned as-is. ## See Also `with-meta`, `meta`, `vary-meta`