I see the same behavior in Clojure 1.7.0 and 1.8.0 as you see in 1.9.0-RC1.
Andy On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 9:48 PM, Shantanu Kumar <kumar.shant...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry, I did not specify the problem completely earlier. The coercion > fails only when *uncheked-math* is set to truthy in 1.9.0-RC1. > > user=> (byte \a) > 97 > user=> (set! *unchecked-math* true) ; or :warn-on-boxed > true > user=> (byte \a) > > ClassCastException java.lang.Character cannot be cast to java.lang.Number > clojure.lang.RT.uncheckedByteCast (RT.java:1376) > > > Shantanu > > On Tuesday, 14 November 2017 01:27:36 UTC+5:30, Alex Miller wrote: >> >> Works for me in 1.9.0-RC1. I don't know of anything that changed in this >> area. >> >> Clojure 1.9.0-RC1 >> user=> (byte \a) >> 97 >> >> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 1:09 PM, Shantanu Kumar <kumar.s...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> The coercion (byte \a) works fine in Clojure 1.8, but it fails with >>> `ClassCastException java.lang.Character cannot be cast to java.lang.Number` >>> in 1.9.0-RC1. Is this by design? >>> >>> >>> Shantanu >>> >>> -- > 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. > -- 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.
