On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Victor Rodriguez <vict...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 5:51 PM, ke...@ksvanhorn.com > <kvanh...@ksvanhorn.com> wrote: >> >> The Clojure documentation, under "Reader", gives a list of characters >> allowed in a symbol name. The characters, <, >, and = are not >> included in this list. How is it then that <, <=, >, >=, =, etc. are >> symbols? (I assume they are symbols because I can write (< 3 4), >> etc.) > > Looks like the documentation is out of date: > > user> (def <>= 3) > #'user/<>= > user> <>= > 3
This is not a valid conclusion. Clojure does allow things that, according to the documentation, you should not do. And not because the documentation is out of date. e.g. symbols beginning or ending with a dot are reserved. Yet you can do this: user=> (def ... 123) #'user/... user=> ... 123 or this: user=> (defmacro ... [x] x) #'user/... user=> (... 123) 123 Although this is currently allowed by Clojure, it is not guaranteed to keep working as Clojure evolves. Also, trying to do the same with a function instead of a macro does not work: user=> (defn ... [x] x) #'user/... user=> (... 123) java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No matching field found: .. for class java.lang.Integer (NO_SOURCE_FILE:0) I don't know the answer to the original question. -- Michael Wood <esiot...@gmail.com> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
