Thanks. I missed that when I was reading the reader documentation. On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Stephen C. Gilardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 10, 2008, at 5:37 PM, Ben Kearns wrote: > > user=> (in-ns '1foo) > (in-ns '1foo) > java.lang.NumberFormatException: Invalid number: 1foo > > Is there some reason that this is disallowed and should be avoided? > > Yes, the argument to in-ns is a symbol and symbol names cannot begin with a > number. The reader will try to interpret a token that begins with a number > as a number. > Please see http://clojure.org/reader , Reader Forms, Symbol which includes: > Symbols begin with a non-numeric character [...] > --Steve > > > >
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