On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Kevin Downey <redc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Symbols starting and ending with "." are reserved.
> see http://clojure.org/reader the section on Symbols

Fair enough, but why does the (defn) succeed if these symbols are reserved?

> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Michael Wood <esiot...@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
>> user=> (defn ... [] (print 'something))
>> #'user/...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>> user=> (...)
>> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Malformed member expression,
>> expecting (.member target ...) (NO_SOURCE_FILE:4)
>> user=>

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Michael Wood <esiot...@gmail.com>

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