Comments from Colin Jones. This is a symptom of how REPLy handles "unexpected" nodes that sjacket provides (and sjacket saying that :#abc is not a keyword). REPLy started to use sjacket for parsing input forms in 0.1.0 (final; not the betas), to handle situations like reader literals and read-eval that require the full execution context (which therefore need to execute remotely via nREPL).
If there's an unexpected node, REPLy throws up its hands and ships the input off to nREPL. This appears to work fine when the input is complete, I'd expect due to coincidence in the reader's implementation. I agree with Ambrose; it's not promised to be a valid symbol or keyword by any documentation I can find. Another hint is https://github.com/edn-format/edn, where there's more specification of what characters a valid symbol/keyword can contain: ##### from EDN spec Symbols begin with a non-numeric character and can contain alphanumeric characters and . * + ! - _ ? $ % & =. If -, + or . are the first character, the second character must be non-numeric. Additionally, : # are allowed as constituent characters in symbols other than as the first character. ##### So I think sjacket is doing the correct thing in this situation by saying the input is unexpected/incorrect, and that this input working in the reader itself is not by design. Note that this problem does not exist where the keyword in question is :a#bc user=> (let [v :a#bc] #_=> v) :a#bc -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
