On Tuesday, January 04, 2011 at 10:18 am, Tim Daly wrote:
> I've run into a syntax for strings that I don't understand.
> The string #"some string" is used in the test files. The
> documentation on the reader does not list this as a possible
> input case. What does it mean?

It's reader syntax for a regular expression.

user=> (type #"some string")
java.util.regex.Pattern

It and its reader macro friends can be found here:
http://clojure.org/reader

> Once I cross this hurdle everything else works and I can
> post a new version for your experiments.

Thanks for your efforts on this. I'm quite interested in its potential!

- Jeff

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