This is something I noticed the other day - the reader doc states of keywords "They cannot contain '.' or name classes". Clearly most qualified keywords will contain '.'.
On 15 April 2013 18:07, Andy Fingerhut <andy.finger...@gmail.com> wrote: > The description of legal symbols at http://clojure.org/reader could be > somewhat more explicit on this. One could read it to mean that since :m/7 > starts with an non-numeric "m" after the :, it is legal. One could also > infer from it that since within namespace m you could not use :7 (since > that starts with a numeric symbol), :m/7 should not be legal, either. I > personally believe the second statement is correct, but that is only my > non-authoritative opinion. > > Clojure has a history of functions that do not throw exceptions and return > what look like perfectly valid return values for symbols, namespaces, and > keywords, even though the documentation says they are not supported. For > example, see http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1033 > > I have no idea whether this is likely to change. I would guess it isn't > high priority for Clojure/core members. > > Andy > > > On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 8:37 AM, ubun2 <johnny.weng....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> (keyword "m" "7") ;;=> :m/7 >> >> :m/7 ;;=> #<RuntimeException java.lang.RuntimeException: Invalid token: >> :m/7> >> >> a bug right? >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Clojure" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
