Vetter needed for CLJ-873

[Chris Gray]

Hello,

I have a issue that has been languishing for a while in JIRA, that I
would like to see move forward. It is a strange little special case
that exists in the compiler that can be gotten rid of fairly easily.
The url is http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-873

If a member of clojure/core could look at it, I would appreciate it!

Cheers,
Chris

[Aaron Bedra]

This issue has no additional history or discussions. I understand the surface idea here, but what are the common reasons or needs for this? Without additional rationale and discussion, changes to the reader are hard to justify.

Can you please provide some deeper rationale for this?

Cheers,

Aaron Bedra
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[Chris Gray]

On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 22:30:40 -0500, Aaron Bedra <aaron...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This issue has no additional history or discussions. I understand the
> surface idea here, but what are the common reasons or needs for this?
> Without additional rationale and discussion, changes to the reader are
> hard to justify.

Thanks for having a look. The reason for this is that sometimes you
want to define a function named "/". I wanted to do this because I
wanted to define rational arithmetic in Clojurescript, but it seems
reasonable in other situations as well. If you ever want to use this
function in another namespace with the current reader, you are out of
luck.

The function named "/" is the only function where this is the case. To
me, that seems like a pretty glaring inconsistency in the language. A
simple example:

user=> (ns foo (:use [clojure.core :as c]))
nil
foo=> (c/+ 1 2 3)
6
foo=> (c/* 1 2 3)
6
foo=> (c// 12 2)
12
RuntimeException Invalid token: c// clojure.lang.Util.runtimeException (Util.java:156)
RuntimeException Unmatched delimiter: ) clojure.lang.Util.runtimeException (Util.java:156)
2
foo=>

I concede that there's not a huge need for people to go around defining
their own / functions. However, it does exist, and the behavior above
shows that it does not currently work.

Cheers,
Chris

[Aaron Bedra]

Thanks for the additional information. I am going to link to this on the ticket and continue the discussion there. Please make sure to watch the ticket for additional discussion.

Cheers,

Aaron Bedra
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