Re: Eval vs the repl

2013-08-28 Thread Alex Miller
I think you may be tripping over this bug: http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1184 which is waiting for Rich's approval to go into 1.6. Alex On Wednesday, August 28, 2013 11:13:54 AM UTC-5, Jamie Brandon wrote: > > I had previously assumed that the clojure repl effectively just did > (eval

Re: Eval vs the repl

2013-08-28 Thread Jamie Brandon
> Just curious: what do you expect that to do? It was actually the second example that was causing me trouble and when I was digging through the compiler for the cause I noticed the first. I don't actually want to write that code, I'm just confused as to why nrepl.el gives a different answer to le

Re: Eval vs the repl

2013-08-28 Thread John Gabriele
On Wednesday, August 28, 2013 12:13:54 PM UTC-4, Jamie Brandon wrote: > > user> [do (inc 1)] > > Just curious: what do you expect that to do? To me it looks like a 2-element vector... (containing a `do` special form and then the value 2), but my repl yields 2 as the result (?). -- -- You rec

Re: Eval vs the repl

2013-08-28 Thread Jamie Brandon
Huh, I'm using nrepl.el but if I use lein repl I get the same results as you. On 28 August 2013 18:16, Aaron Cohen wrote: > What repl are you using? I think it's doing something weird. > > java -cp clojure-1.5.1.jar clojure.main > user=> [do (inc 1)] > 2 > user> ^{:line 11, :column 20} [] > Class

Re: Eval vs the repl

2013-08-28 Thread Aaron Cohen
What repl are you using? I think it's doing something weird. java -cp clojure-1.5.1.jar clojure.main user=> [do (inc 1)] 2 user> ^{:line 11, :column 20} [] ClassCastException java.lang.Long cannot be cast to java.lang.Integer clojure.lang.Compiler.eval (Compiler.java:6597) --Aaron -- -- You r

Eval vs the repl

2013-08-28 Thread Jamie Brandon
I had previously assumed that the clojure repl effectively just did (eval (read-string input)). That doesn't seem to be the case eg: user> [do (inc 1)] CompilerException java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to resolve symbol: do in this context, compiling:(NO_SOURCE_PATH:1:1) user> (eval '[do (inc 1