Clojure

• Type: Enhancement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: None
• Fix Version/s: None
• Component/s: None
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The implementation of clojure.core/get returns null if its argument is not a valid associative collection. However, calling 'get' on something which is neither nil nor an Associative collection is almost certainly a bug, and should be indicated by an exception.

This behavior can obscure common programmer errors such as:

(def a (atom {:a 1 :b 2})

(:foo a)   ; forgot to deref a
;;=> nil

CLJ-932 was accepted as a similar enhancement to 'clojure.core/contains?'

Attached patch 0001 throws an IllegalArgumentException as the fall-through case of RT.getFrom.

1. 

   0001-CLJ-1107-Throw-exception-for-get-called-on-unsupport.patch

   13/Nov/12 1:57 PM

   3 kB

   Stuart Sierra

• Assignee:

  Stuart Sierra

  Reporter:

  Stuart Sierra

• Created:

  13/Nov/12 1:20 PM

  Updated:

  13/Nov/12 1:57 PM