I am trying to follow the rules for unqualified symbol resolution as listed at https://clojure.org/reference/evaluation
According to those rules, if my symbol is mapped to a class name in the current namespace, then that should override any (hopefully, accidental) local bindings of the same symbol. But this does not seem to happen reliably in the current version (1.9.0) as shown below. The resolution seems to be inconsistent depending on how the symbol is used as you can see below. user=> (clojure-version) "1.9.0" user=> (deftype my-t [x]) user.my-t user=> ((fn [x] (let [my-t 1] (println "Now I resolve to the locally bound my-t =" my-t) (println "You can even pass me as arguments to functions:" (+ my-t x)) (.-x (new my-t "Funnily enough, now I resolve to the class user.my-t")))) 3) Now I resolve to the locally bound my-t = 1 You can even pass me as arguments to functions: 4 "Funnily enough, now I resolve to the class user.my-t" Surely, such a resolution of a symbol alternatively to a local binding and a class name is inconsistent, and makes hard to read as well as being a potential source of bugs? Am I wrong to expect an error thrown at least when evaluating the expression (+ my-t x)? -- 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.
