On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 9:23:16 AM UTC-5, Nicola Mometto wrote: > > To be honest I'm not sure this should even be a valid use of type hints. > You're telling the compiler that the result of (foo) is an int, when it is > infact a long. > > The correct way to do this should be: > (Integer/bitCount (int (foo)) > > Again, lack of specification on what the correct type hinting semantics > should be make it hard to evaluate if this should be considered a bug or > just an user error that previously just got ignored. >
It's a bug. Even if ^int (thing-that-returns-long) is a user error, the result should be a sane error message from the Clojure compiler, not bad bytecode that later fails with a VerifyError. -- 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/d/optout.
