Re: requesting help from any IBM JVM users out there

2010-04-14 Thread Josh Arnold
According to both the JLS [1] and the JVM Spec [2], neither '>' or '<' are legal within an identifier; The various Character.isJava***() methods return false for those characters. As for the original problem, I was able to reproduce it on some Windows IBM JVMs [3] and I verified that applying the

Re: requesting help from any IBM JVM users out there

2010-04-14 Thread Stuart Halloway
If you apply the patch I have added at https://www.assembla.com/spaces/clojure/tickets/104-gc-issue-100--gen-class-creating-non-compliant-field-names- you should be able to tell pretty quickly. If you aren't comfortable with git patches, building clojure, etc. ping me offline and I can just s

Re: requesting help from any IBM JVM users out there

2010-04-14 Thread David Andrews
I've fallen victim to #104 in an IBM zSeries environment. I can't offer much in the way of Java literacy, but I can certainly test anything you'd care to toss my way. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email t

requesting help from any IBM JVM users out there

2010-04-14 Thread Stuart Halloway
I am preparing a patch to fix issue #104 [1], a.k.a. "IBM JVM rejects member names with dashes (-) that Sun JVMs like just fine." The original thread [2] included a patch that uses $ as a delimiter, e.g. "who$likes$reading$this". My preference is to use underscores, e.g. "isnt_this_much_bet