I *THINK* what is meant by the "non-numeric" is anything that matches

#"[a-zA-z]"

Just my $.02

Sean

On Nov 17, 9:30 am, Stefan Kamphausen <ska2...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> during some examinations about the broken REPL with current Slime I
> found that I can't create names with a trailing %:
>
> Clojure 1.1.0-alpha-SNAPSHOT
> user=> (def %thisworks 11)
> #'user/%thisworks
> user=> %thisworks
> 11
> user=> (def %thisdoesnt% 22)
> java.lang.Exception: Too many arguments to def (NO_SOURCE_FILE:3)
> user=>
>
> According tohttp://clojure.org/reader: "Symbols begin with a non-
> numeric character and can contain alphanumeric characters and *, +, !,
> -, _, and ? (other characters will be allowed eventually, but not all
> macro characters have been determined)"
>
> So, am I right, that "non-numeric character" for the first char
> includes the percent-sign whereas the explicit list for all following
> characters doesn't.
>
> Rather peculiar, I think.  Not?
>
> Kind regards,
> Stefan
>
> PS: The background of this is, that Slime is sending a "%CURSOR-MARKER
> %" down the line.

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