Re: #|| notation for the Clojure reader

2013-07-10 Thread Dan Cross
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Pierre Allix wrote: > [snip] > b) there was a proposal to implement a reader macro with a pipe notation ( e.g. > #|symbol with whitespace|) as in Common Lisp. > This would allow to read back symbols which don't follow the naming rules. > Just a nit: this isn't ex

#|| notation for the Clojure reader

2013-07-10 Thread Pierre Allix
Hello, I'm using a Clojure library which generates symbols of the form a/b/1. They are symbols representing URI. These symbols cannot be serialized as strings and read back with read-string. a) the symbol function does not validate its inputs. It was discussed here https://groups.google.com