Hello, I'm using a Clojure library which generates symbols of the form a/b/1. They are symbols representing URI.
These symbols cannot be serialized as strings and read back with read-string. a) the symbol function does not validate its inputs. It was discussed here https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/clojure/symbol$20invalid$20name/clojure/WvXYkvLoQhI/B49XobbGXQwJ and http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-17 For performance reason this was not implemented. OK. But a person in the previous thread proposed to document the behavior of symbol in the docstring and it wasn't done. So until it is done I think we will have a few generation of newcomers having the same headaches as me... b) there was a proposal to implement a reader macro with a pipe notation ( e.g. #|symbol with whitespace|) as in Common Lisp. This would allow to read back symbols which don't follow the naming rules. Was some work done on this since this proposal was expressed? Best regards. -- -- 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.
