On 16 May 2016, at 15:53, Alex Miller <a...@puredanger.com> wrote:
> 
> This is kind of an interesting case. From poking at it a bit, the {} is typed 
> as a IPersistentMap, and IPM does NOT extend java.util.Map (although the 
> implementations like PersistentArrayMap and PersistentHashMap do via 
> APersistentMap).
> 
> I think the interesting question is why the type hint is not taking effect as 
> you would expect that to work. That could be because {} is a constant empty 
> map. That needs some more investigation and if you wanted to file a jira 
> ticket, we could do so further.

It's because you can't (currently) override type hints on constant collections, 
see:

https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/jvm/clojure/lang/Compiler.java#L1950-L1960
https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/jvm/clojure/lang/Compiler.java#L2962-L2972

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