You need to unquote the x to get its value from the let. You can do that with the tilde character inside syntax quotes:
user=> (let [x 1] (eval `(inc ~x))) 2 On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Miron Brezuleanu<mbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm a Clojure newbie (many thanks to Rich Hickey and everyone involved > - it's a great programming environment) and I have some trouble with > 'eval'. > > What I'm trying is: > $ java -cp clojure.jar clojure.lang.Repl > Clojure 1.1.0-alpha-SNAPSHOT > user=> (let [x 1] (eval '(inc x))) > java.lang.Exception: Unable to resolve symbol: x in this context > (NO_SOURCE_FILE:1) > > (on a freshly downloaded&compiled clojure from github) > > According to my understanding of http://clojure.org/evaluation, my > code should simply return 2. > > What am I missing? :-) > > > > -- Venlig hilsen / Kind regards, Christian Vest Hansen. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
