http://dev.clojure.org/jira This file is an XML representation of an issue en-us 4.4 649 25-07-2011 http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-732 Clojure <p>user=&gt; (keyword "")<br/> :<br/> user=&gt; (prn-str *1)<br/> ":\n"<br/> user=&gt; (read-string *1)<br/> java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.Exception: Invalid token: : (NO_SOURCE_FILE:0)</p> <p>This obviously isn't a huge defect, but I'd argue that anything that can be printed should be readable.</p> CLJ-732

(keyword "") can be printed, but not read

Defect Minor Closed Declined Unassigned Zach Tellman Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:45:52 -0600 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 07:49:21 -0500 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 07:49:20 -0500 Release 1.2 Backlog 0 0 <p>Patch that throws IllegalArgumentException would be ok for this.</p> <p>After a brief review of places that call intern, it appears that this problem might never be reached in the reader, only in user code calling (keyword ...). Does it make more sense to have the patch there, and a matching change for (symbol ...)?</p> Approval Incomplete Global Rank Waiting On richhickey