Clojure

• Type: Enhancement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: None
• Fix Version/s: None
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('+ 1 2) ;; return 2 because it is treated as (get 1 '+ 2)

Whilst this is "consistent" once you know the lookup behavior, it's confusing for Clojure newbies and it seems to be a non-useful behavior.

Proposal: modify Keyword.invoke() and Symbol.invoke() to restrict first Object argument to instanceof ILookup, Map or IPersistentSet (or null) so that the "not found" behavior doesn't produce non-intuitive behavior.

• Assignee:

  Unassigned

  Reporter:

  Sean Corfield

• Created:

  09/Apr/12 5:29 PM

  Updated:

  09/Apr/12 5:29 PM