[CLJ-178] Reloading core.clj from REPL fails with print-method exception

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:34:00 -0500

Example REPL session:

(in-ns 'clojure.core)
(def source-file "/path/to/clojure/src/clj/clojure/core.clj")
(load-string (slurp source-file))
</code></pre>

Result:
<pre><code>
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No method in multimethod 'print-method' for dispatch value: class clojure.lang.Var
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No method in multimethod 'print-method' for dispatch value: class java.lang.String
        at clojure.lang.MultiFn.getFn(MultiFn.java:115)
        at clojure.lang.MultiFn.invoke(MultiFn.java:161)
        at clojure.core$pr_on__1315.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at clojure.core$pr__1318.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at clojure.lang.AFn.applyToHelper(AFn.java:173)
        at clojure.lang.RestFn.applyTo(RestFn.java:137)
        at clojure.core$apply__183.doInvoke(Unknown Source)
        at clojure.lang.RestFn.invoke(RestFn.java:428)
        at clojure.core$print__1332.doInvoke(Unknown Source)
        at clojure.lang.RestFn.invoke(RestFn.java:413)
        at clojure.core$printf__2285.doInvoke(Unknown Source)
        at clojure.lang.RestFn.invoke(RestFn.java:428)
        at clojure.main$repl_prompt__6713.invoke(main.clj:41)
        at clojure.main$repl__6737.doInvoke(main.clj:199)
        at clojure.lang.RestFn.invoke(RestFn.java:426)
        at clojure.main$repl_opt__6777.invoke(main.clj:251)
        at clojure.main$main__6812.doInvoke(main.clj:338)
        at clojure.lang.RestFn.invoke(RestFn.java:402)
        at clojure.lang.Var.invoke(Var.java:355)
        at clojure.lang.AFn.applyToHelper(AFn.java:171)
        at clojure.lang.Var.applyTo(Var.java:476)
        at clojure.main.main(main.java:37)

Clojure JIRA

[CLJ-178] Reloading core.clj from REPL fails with print-method exception