You can programmatically create keywords that are illegal as literals, i.e., will not be accepted by the reader.
This is not a fault of clojure.core/pr – if it is given a value that uses legal (readable) keywords, its result will indeed be readable by clojure.core/read-string. You can also programmatically create symbols that are illegal as far as the reader is concerned. Sean Corfield -- (970) FOR-SEAN -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood On 8/3/16, 4:37 PM, "Blake Miller" <clojure@googlegroups.com on behalf of blak3mil...@gmail.com> wrote: I have tried this with Clojure 1.7.0, 1.8.0 and 1.9.0-alpha10 (clojure.core/read-string (clojure.core/with-out-str (clojure.core/pr (clojure.core/keyword "A valid keyword")))) ;; => :A This just seems wrong. It's valid to have an instance of clojure.lang.Keyword with a space in its name. (clojure.core/with-out-str (clojure.core/pr (clojure.core/keyword "A valid keyword"))) => ":A valid keyword" So, it seems like clojure.core/pr and clojure.core/read-string disagree about EDN. Is EDN formally specified? https://github.com/edn-format/edn/issues/56 seems to suggest it is not. I ran into this problem using ptaoussanis/sente to pass EDN over a websocket. The EDN contained a keyword with a space in it, and the clojure(jvm) part of sente had no problem serializing it, but the ClojureScript part of sente barfed on it. I thought it was a bug in sente, however sente simply calls clojure.core/pr to do the serialization... so I played with pr vs read-string and found that they disagree. The serialization that clojure.core/pr does on a keyword with a space in it seems broken to me: user> (clojure.core/with-out-str (clojure.core/pr {:onekey 1 (clojure.core/keyword "two key") 2})) "{:onekey 1, :two key 2}" There doesn't seem to be any way to parse that unambiguously. I think this is a bug. What do you think? https://github.com/ptaoussanis/sente/issues/251 -- 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/d/optout.
