Hi,

On Apr 1, 6:58 am, Douglas Philips <d...@mac.com> wrote:

> According to:http://clojure.org/reader
> Symbols begin with a non-numeric character and can contain  
> alphanumeric characters and *, +, !, -, _, and ? (other characters  
> will be allowed eventually, but not all macro characters have been  
> determined). ...
>
> It seems that '>' is permitted in 1.1, as:
>      user=> (def foo->bar 3)
>      #'user/foo->bar
>
> Does that work by "accident" (or by undocumented permissiveness)?
> Is there someplace else that I should for an answer to this?

The documentation is authoritative. Not enforcing the rules does not
mean that the rules are invalid. So to be safe one should stick with
the documentation. However I think characters like <, > or = should
also be in the allowed list. It should probably be revised.

Sincerely
Meikel

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