Dear All, I am trying to make sense of Closure by reading the book Programming Closure, 2nd Eddition.
I persistently get booed at one of the very first lines of code in the book: (conj coll item) The listing (rather short) is below. May I please ask you for some hint because beginner's luck seems to have gone missing in this case. Thanks in advance! Milen milen@linux-oaty:~> cd ~/Dropbox/Clojure/clojure-1.4.0/ milen@linux-oaty:~/Dropbox/Clojure/clojure-1.4.0> java -cp clojure-1.4.0.jar clojure.main Clojure 1.4.0 user=> (conj coll item) CompilerException java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to resolve symbol: coll in this context, compiling:(NO_SOURCE_PATH:1) user=> (pst) CompilerException java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to resolve symbol: coll in this context, compiling:(NO_SOURCE_PATH:1) clojure.lang.Compiler.analyze (Compiler.java:6281) clojure.lang.Compiler.analyze (Compiler.java:6223) clojure.lang.Compiler$InvokeExpr.parse (Compiler.java:3548) clojure.lang.Compiler.analyzeSeq (Compiler.java:6457) clojure.lang.Compiler.analyze (Compiler.java:6262) clojure.lang.Compiler.analyze (Compiler.java:6223) clojure.lang.Compiler$BodyExpr$Parser.parse (Compiler.java:5618) clojure.lang.Compiler$FnMethod.parse (Compiler.java:5054) clojure.lang.Compiler$FnExpr.parse (Compiler.java:3674) clojure.lang.Compiler.analyzeSeq (Compiler.java:6453) clojure.lang.Compiler.analyze (Compiler.java:6262) clojure.lang.Compiler.eval (Compiler.java:6508) Caused by: RuntimeException Unable to resolve symbol: coll in this context clojure.lang.Util.runtimeException (Util.java:170) clojure.lang.Compiler.resolveIn (Compiler.java:6766) clojure.lang.Compiler.resolve (Compiler.java:6710) clojure.lang.Compiler.analyzeSymbol (Compiler.java:6671) clojure.lang.Compiler.analyze (Compiler.java:6244) clojure.lang.Compiler.analyze (Compiler.java:6223) nil user=> -- 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