Hi Andy,
Thanks for this, I hadn't realized there was a ticket and prior discussion.
I've voted on the ticket and will add a mention of '#' and this thread to
the ticket.
All best,
steven
On Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at 11:31:03 AM UTC-5, Andy Fingerhut wrote:
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> Steven:
>
> Regarding Alex M
Steven:
Regarding Alex Miller's "Voting" message of today, you could consider
voting on this related ticket if you are so inclined:
http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1527
I just realized that having a warning in a lint tool like Eastwood for
using characters other than those explicitly endor
Hi Alex,
Thanks for the reply, that was how I understood the intention of that text
as well. It is ambiguous though, considering the discussion of
auto-gensyms later in the page mentions:
"If a symbol is non-namespace-qualified and ends with '#', it is resolved
to a generated symbol with the
Hi Ikuru,
I'm afraid that section of the site doesn't really clear it up for me.
There's a difference between when # is found as the initial character of
the next item to read and when it's in the middle or end (i.e.,
auto-gensyms). (It's okay though; I'll reply further in my reply to Alex's
On Monday, November 7, 2016 at 6:33:49 PM UTC-6, Steven Yi wrote:
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> Hi All,
>
> I wanted to understand whether '#' may be treated as a valid character
> for symbols. The Clojure site [1] has:
>
> "Symbols begin with a non-numeric character and can contain
> alphanumeric characters and *, +,
Hi Steven!
I think all of those cases are covered in the reader reference' reader
dispatch section:
http://clojure.org/reference/reader#_dispatch
Basically when the reader encounters a '#' it does the appropriate dispatch
action depending on what follows.
As it is a special character handled by
Hi All,
I wanted to understand whether '#' may be treated as a valid character
for symbols. The Clojure site [1] has:
"Symbols begin with a non-numeric character and can contain
alphanumeric characters and *, +, !, -, _, ', and ? (other characters
may be allowed eventually)."
I realized I was us
