"Oh yeah, we should fix the reader page to acknowledge that we've used these characters in symbols already"
The reader already has a macro associated with "\", the character literal. user=> (int \>) 62 user=> (str \>) ">" user=> (first ">") \> HTH, Sean On Apr 5, 11:19 am, Douglas Philips <d...@mac.com> wrote: > On 2010 Apr 5, at 3:49 AM, ataggart wrote: > > > The docs say what characters are guaranteed future-safe for *you* to > > use in symbols, nothing more. I don't see what's so puzzling about > > this. > > I asked a specific question: > Is it really still an open question that the comparison functions > would be changed in order to make those characters into macro > characters? > > What is now doubly puzzling is that instead of saying: > "Oh yeah, we should fix the reader page to acknowledge that we've > used these characters in symbols already" > or: > "Check the archives, there is some talk of ...." > or: > "There is a difference between symbols that closure core and > those in user code, see <URL>" > or: > ... > > there is pushback. > > -Doug -- 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 To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
