Reader literal for clojure.lang.PersistentQueue?

[Sean Corfield]

Now that we have reader literals, would it be useful to have a
built-in reader literal for this type?

#queue [] ;; create an empty clojure.lang.PersistentQueue
#queue [1 2 3 4]
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[Phil Hagelberg]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Sean Corfield <seanco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Now that we have reader literals, would it be useful to have a
> built-in reader literal for this type?
>
> #queue [] ;; create an empty clojure.lang.PersistentQueue
> #queue [1 2 3 4]

Personally I much prefer the queue-fish representation:

user=> (conj (conj clojure.lang.PersistentQueue/EMPTY 12) 9)
<-(12 9)-<

-Phil

[Mark Engelberg]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Sean Corfield <seanco...@gmail.com> wrote:

Now that we have reader literals, would it be useful to have a
built-in reader literal for this type?

#queue [] ;; create an empty clojure.lang.PersistentQueue
#queue [1 2 3 4]

+1 

[Stuart Sierra]

Nice. You can, of course, add your own data reader symbol (namespaced) that creates PersistentQueue.

The <-(1 2 3)-< syntax would require more changes to the reader. Don't hold your breath.
-S

[Sean Corfield]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Stuart Sierra
<the.stua...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nice. You can, of course, add your own data reader symbol (namespaced) that
> creates PersistentQueue.

Indeed. And I may well do so for my code. But it seems that
PersistentQueue is common enough that a standard, built-in literal
syntax might be warranted?

[Brian Taylor]

Are there reader literals in the Clojurescript reader yet?

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[Stuart Sierra]

On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 7:56:23 AM UTC-4, Brian Taylor wrote:

Are there reader literals in the Clojurescript reader yet?

No. Needs a patch.

[Fogus]

I've created a case for this at http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-976

There is an open question stating:

Should the queue literal evaluate its arguments? The implications of this are illustrated below:

;; non-eval case
#queue [1 2 (+ 1 2)]

;=> #queue [1 2 (+ 1 2)]


;; eval case
#queue [1 2 (+ 1 2)]

;=> #queue [1 2 3]

I would appreciate feedback on the ticket itself.  Thank you.