Patch clj-1197-make-bigint-work-on-all-doubles-v1.txt dated Apr 7 2013 changes bigint and biginteger so that they return the correct value for all float and double values, and no longer throw an exception.

Looks good. Tests pass and the failing example now converts correctly

Please change this to link to the definitive prose, so we don't have to maintain that in two places.

Feel free to correct the wording, I used something simple.

Stu, he linked to clojure.org as you requested so I'm moving this along.

This patch works great for me to avoid OOM/PermGen crashes from classloaders being retained [mine is a non-servlet use case].

Attached patch fixes the issue, and adds regression test for it.

Verified patch works

The attached patch just binds *read-eval* to true inside source-fn.

Note: Allowing this implies that you trust the data on your classpath. If there are reasons somebody might not, we should reject this patch and people will have to be explicit when calling source.

Ugh, that's a fair point when it comes to sandboxing. I'll check with the owners of clojurebot and lazybot.

I haven't come up with any scenarios where this is problematic, and I haven't heard anything back from the bot owners. As for sandboxing, clojure.repl can easily be excluded.

Clojure 1.3 om Mac OS 10.7, Clojure 1.5.0 alpha1 on Linux x86_64 (OpenJDK 1.7.0 b147)

The attached patch fixes the issue, by emitting IPersistentMap instead of Persistent{Hash|Array}Map as class type for maps literals

I uploaded another patch fixing the same problem in a different way.
While 0001-Fix-for-CLJ-944.patch makes clojure.lang.Complier.ConstantExpr#getJavaClass return clojure.lang.IPersistentMap for both clojure.lang.PersistentHashMap and clojure.lang.PersistentArrayMap, 0002-Fix-for-CLJ-944.patch makes clojure.lang.Compiler.MapExpr#parse return a PersistentArrayMap if the length is <= HASHTABLE_THRESHOLD, instead of always returning a PersistentHashMap.

This approach is more consistent, making the type of the compiler's internal representation of a map literal equal to the one of the reader.

Note that this second approach while being more consistent, breaks some tests that assume some operations on maps (specifically `seq` and `print`) to be order dependent, and written with the hash-map return order implementation in mind.

That should not be the case and if the second patch is preferred over the first one, I'll gladly fix those tests.

Approach #2, relying on consistent choice of concrete map class by size throughout, feels quite fragile.

Approach #1 seems to abuse the method name getJavaClass(), now having it return "get the base type I would need for cast".

Maybe there needs to be a different thing entirely?

Patch #2 should get merged (IMHO) regardless of the fragility of its approach to fixing this ticket's bug, since it fixes another bug:

prior to the patch:

user=> (class {:a 1})
clojure.lang.PersistentArrayMap
user=> (def a {:a 1})
#'user/a
user=> (class a)
clojure.lang.PersistentHashMap

after the patch:

user=> (class {:a 1})
clojure.lang.PersistentArrayMap
user=> (def a {:a 1})
#'user/a
user=> (class a)
clojure.lang.PersistentArrayMap

This should also lead to some minor performance enhancement since prior to this moment, every map def'ed would be a HashMap instead of an ArrayMap

So, I think patch #2 should be applied if not for this ticket's bug, at least for the reason stated above.
If somebody has any proposal for making this patch more solid regarding this ticket's bug, any help is welcome

This should not have passed screening. There are two issues, should be separate. I have no idea what has been screened nor what will be applied should it be approved. There's contention in the discussion but no resolution.

I don't think that there are two issues here.
The issue is only one: the compiler doesn't emit maps in a way consistent with what the reader returns and with how the compiler itself uses maps.
The symptoms are two: some interop calls fail, and def'ed vars with a literal map as value never use a PersistentArrayMap.

The underlying cause of those two symtoms is fixed by the patch 002 that i submitted (incorporated in Stu's clj944-plus-tests patch.

Stuart said that this approach feels fragile but the bug is caused by the fact that everywhere else clojure returns a PersistentArrayMap when the element count is <= than the PersistentHashMap threshold, and when emitting maps, it doesn't.

Making clojure emit maps consistently with how clojure does internally everywhere else looks to me like the only solution, and I don't really see how making clojure consistent is a fragile approach.

But again, if somebody can suggest a better solution to this problem, I'll gladly submit another patch.

CLJ-850-test.patch added.

When the compiler tries to generates the call to the correct overload of invokePrim, it's failing to take the return type into account. I should be calling invokePrim(Ljava/lang/Object;J)J;.

XXX this is where I got myself confused. The invokePrim overload it's trying to invoke is the correct one. But, that apparently is no the one that's being generated. Sorry for the noise.

Here's what I think I'm seeing:

HostExpr.Parse.parse() loses track of the return type, in the final else branch where method calls are handled. This is because tagOf(form), where form is something like: (. foo invokePrim 1) returns nil. (The form itself doesn't have a :tag, but I believe foo does, though that's the name of the appropriate invokePrim interface (i.e. IFn$OLL).

new InstanceMethodExpr(...) then gets constructed with tag==null, at which point we've already lost sine InstanceMethodExpr can't correctly consider overloading on the result type if it doesn't know what it is.

It's not yet clear to me how I can get InstanceMethodExpr to consider the return type, if it knew it...

There are two things going on here. I'm not sure which is the error.

It looks like the return type of the generated invokePrim method is too specific. It's generated as returning String, though the IFn$LO interface specifies returning Object.

The caller attempts to call invokePrim returning Object, which is what the interface IFn$LO specifies, but this doesn't work because methodSL doesn't actually implement that method. Instead it implements an overload returning String.

1. methodSL.invokePrim is declared as (long)->String
2. methodSL.invoke does invokeinterface with the correct return type WRT methodSL, but the wrong return type WRT the IFn$LO interface.
3. callSL.invoke does invokeinterface with the wrong return type WRT methodSL, but the correct return type WRT IFn$LO. (This is the failure we observe in the clj-850 unit test.)

(defn methodSL  ^String [^long i] (str i))

<<1>> public final java.lang.String invokePrim(long);  <<1>>
      Code:
       0:   getstatic   #25; 
            //Field const__0:Lclojure/lang/Var;
       3:   invokevirtual   #34; 
            //Method clojure/lang/Var.getRawRoot:()Ljava/lang/Object;
       6:   checkcast   #36; 
            //class clojure/lang/IFn
       9:   lload_1
       10:  invokestatic    #42; 
            //Method clojure/lang/Numbers.num:(J)Ljava/lang/Number;
       13:  invokeinterface #46,  2; 
            //InterfaceMethod clojure/lang/IFn.invoke:(Ljava/lang/Object;)Ljava/lang/Object;
       18:  checkcast   #48; 
            //class java/lang/String
       21:  areturn

      public java.lang.Object invoke(java.lang.Object);
      Code:
       0:   aload_0
       1:   aload_1
       2:   checkcast   #54; 
            //class java/lang/Number
       5:   invokestatic    #58; 
            //Method clojure/lang/RT.longCast:(Ljava/lang/Object;)J
<<2>>  8:   invokeinterface #60,  3; 
            //InterfaceMethod clojure/lang/IFn$LO.invokePrim:(J)Ljava/lang/String;
       13:  areturn

(defn callSL ^String [] (methodSL 42))

    public java.lang.Object invoke();
      Code:
       0:   getstatic   #25; 
            //Field const__0:Lclojure/lang/Var;
       3:   invokevirtual   #43; 
            //Method clojure/lang/Var.getRawRoot:()Ljava/lang/Object;
       6:   checkcast   #45; 
            //class clojure/lang/IFn$LO
       9:   ldc2_w  #26; 
            //long 42l
<<3>>  12:  invokeinterface #49,  3; 
            //InterfaceMethod clojure/lang/IFn$LO.invokePrim:(J)Ljava/lang/Object;
       17:  areturn

Given P is some primitive type, O is type Object, and R some subclass of Object:

When Clojure generates a R invokePrim(P x), it also generates a Object invoke(Object x), which delegates to R invokePrim(P x).

R invokePrim(P x) overloads, but does not override the method of the corresponding Fn$PO interface.

If Clojure were to generate an additional O invokePrim(P x) which delegates to R invokePrim(P x), it would satisfy the requirements of the Fn$PO interface, and should fix this issue.

CLJ-850.patch fixes the issue.

I consider this patch to be pretty hackish and hope that there's a cleaner way of addressing CLJ-850. This is the first time I've tried to understand (much less change) the Clojure compiler, so don't expect genius.

The patch lies slightly:

Clojure needs to generate an additional O invokePrim(P x) method to
satisfy the interface. This also delegates to R invokePrim(P x).

It turns out that what I'm actually doing is generating a R invokePrim(P x) which is a copy of O invokePrim(P x), instead of delgating to O invokePrim(P x). This works, but the resulting class file would be smaller if the patch actually did what it says it does.

clj-850-type-hinted-fn-abstractmethoderror-patch2.txt is identical to Ben's two patches combined into one, with the small modification that the new tests are added to metadata.clj instead of creating a new test file. The patch applies cleanly to latest master as of Feb 27, 2012. One of the new tests does fail without the change to the compiler, and succeeds with it. I can't vouch for the correctness of the change myself, not knowing enough about the compiler internals to judge.

Same comments as made on Feb 27, 2012, except the patch clj-850-type-hinted-fn-abstractmethoderror-patch3.txt applies cleanly to latest master as of Mar 23, 2012. Updated because previous patch (now removed) no longer applied cleanly. git patches often fail to apply if context lines near changes are modified.

We don't support sigs taking prims and returning anything other than prim or Object. Overloading on return value only is a bad idea (and forbidden in Java). The return type of the generated method should be Object, and the String return hint should be used only as a hint.

clj-850-type-hinted-fn-abstractmethoderror-patch4.txt dated Nov 1 2012 is same as Ben Smith-Mannschott's CLJ-850.patch and CLJ-850-test.patch, except it has been combined into one patch and does not create a new test source file.

+10 for solving this issue: it keeps biting me in 1.4 and wouuld love to see in 1.5

I'm not familiar with the Clojure compiler internals, but looking at the approach, shouldn't we produce a primitive method with a different name (since Java doesn't support overloading on return types as Rich correctly points out). Also I think there should be 4 methods:

R invokePrimExact(P x) - the actual method, used when compiler can infer
R invokePrimExact(O x) - delegates, used when compiler can't infer type of x
Object invokePrim(P x) - primitive method, conforms to IFn$PO interface, delegates
Object invoke(Object x) - general method, delegates

I think this solves all the important cases?

Still no patch incorporating my feedback, afaict. Pushing to next release.

Does this new patch address the issue and concerns? (This incorporates Ben's tests from the previous patch, wasn't sure how to attribute him on that hunk) CLJ-850-conform-to-invokePrim.diff

Presumptuously changing state from Incomplete back to Vetted after Ghadi Shayban added the patch CLJ-850-conform-to-invokePrim.diff dated Dec 19 2012 after the status was changed to Incomplete.

I just realized that my patch also implements CLJ-1086.

Would be nice if tests also demonstrated that metadata is preserved correctly.

New patch in response to stuarthalloway feedback.

This patch also prevents an infinite loop in the macroexpander when fed the following expression:

(->> a b (->> c d))

Edit: Far simpler example.

I just realized (with the asssistance of Paul Stadig) that just doing only longs is probably sufficient, as you can get the integer version if you really want it:

> (int (bit-and Integer/MAX_VALUE (unsigned-bit-shift-right -5 1)))
2147483645

Of course, that's less efficient than just doing it directly with java, but it's enough that I think my concern from the previous comment is addressed.

I have attached "0001-CLJ-827-Add-bit-shift-right-logical.patch", which implements a logical bit-shift-right using the same JVM bytecode as >>>.

The patch mimics the implementations of << and >>.

For context, this feature appears to be needed for Clojure-in-Clojure data structures: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/clojure-dev/iAwH7CLSFzE/6wzDH4RS1YQJ

Just wanted to note that I've introduced this operation to ClojureScript when implementing PersistentHashMap. The name over there is bit-shift-right-zero-fill. Would it be alright for Clojure to use that name? Failing that, ClojureScript would probably have to change to match.

Converted from http://www.assembla.com/spaces/clojure/tickets/322
Attachments:
aot-transitivity-option-compat-322.diff - https://www.assembla.com/spaces/clojure/documents/aI7Eu-HeGr35ImeJe5cbLA/download/aI7Eu-HeGr35ImeJe5cbLA
aot-transitivity-option-322.diff - https://www.assembla.com/spaces/clojure/documents/aIWFiWHeGr35ImeJe5cbLA/download/aIWFiWHeGr35ImeJe5cbLA

hlship said: I'd like to reinforce this. I've been doing research on Clojure build tools for an upcoming talk and all of them (Maven, Leiningen, Gradle) have the same problem: the AOT compile extends from the desired namespaces (such as one containing a :gen-class) to every reached namespace. This is going to cause a real ugliness when application A uses libraries B and C that both depend on library D (such as clojure-contrib) and B and C are thus both bloated with duplicate, unwanted AOT compiled classes from the library D.

cemerick said: This behaviour is an implementation detail of Clojure's AOT compilation process, and is orthogonal to any particular build tooling.

I am working on a patch that would provide a mechanism for such tooling to disable this default behaviour.

cemerick said: A first cut of a change to address this issue is here (caution, work in progress!):

http://github.com/cemerick/clojure/commit/6f14e0790c0d283a7e44056adf1bb3f36bb16e0e

This makes available a new recognized system property, clojure.compiler.transitive, which defaults to true. When set/bound to false (i.e. -Dclojure.compiler.transitive=false when using clojure.lang.Compile), only the first loaded file (either the ns named in the call to compile or each of the namespaces named as arguments to clojure.lang.Compile) will have classfiles written to disk.

This means that this compilation invocation:

java -cp <your classpath> -Dclojure.compiler.transitive=false clojure.lang.Compile com.bar com.baz

will generate classfiles only for com.bar and com.baz, but not for any of the namespaces or other files they load, require, or use.

The only shortcoming of this WIP patch is that classfiles are still generated for proxy and gen-class classes defined outside of the explicitly-named namespaces. What I thought was a solution for this ended up breaking the loading of generated interfaces (as produced by defprotocol, etc).

I'll take a second look at this before the end of the week, but wanted to get this out there so as to get any comments people might have.

technomancy said: Looks good, but I'm having trouble getting it to work. I tried compiling from master of Chas's fork on github, but I still got the all the .class files generated with -Dclojure.compiler.transitive=false. It could be a quirk of the way I'm using ant to fork off processes though. Is it possible to set it using System/setProperty, or must it be given as a property on the command-line?

cemerick said: Bah, that's just bad documentation. :-/

The system property is only provided by clojure.lang.Compile; the value of it drives the binding of clojure.core/transitive-compile, which has a root binding of true.

You should be able to configure the transitivity the same way you configure compile-path (system prop to clojure.lang.Compile or a direct binding when at the REPL, etc).

If not, ping me in irc or elsewhere.

meikelbrandmeyer said: I think, excluding parts 'load'ed is a little strong. I have some namespaces which load several parts from different files, but which belong to the same namespace. The most prominent example of such a case is clojure.core itself. I'm find with stopping require and use, but load is a bit too much, I'd say.

technomancy said: Chas: Thanks; will give that a go.

Meikel: Do people actually use load outside of clojure.core? I thought it was only used there because clojure.core is a "special" namespace where you want more vars to be available than can reasonably fit in a single file. Splitting up a namespace into several files is quite unadvisable otherwise.

technomancy said: I can confirm that this works for me modulo the proxy/gen-class issue that Chas mentioned. I would love to see this in Clojure 1.2; it would really clean up a lot of build-related issues.

meikelbrandmeyer said: I used it several times and this is the first time, I hear that it is unadvisable to do so. Even with a lower number of Vars in the namespace (c.c is here certainly exceptional) and might be of use to split several "sections" of code which belong to the same namespace but have different functionality. Whether to use a big comment in the source to indicate the section or split things into subfiles is a matter of taste. But it's a perfectly reasonable thing todo.

Another use case, where I use this (and c.c.lazy-xml, IIRC) is to conditionally load code depending on whether a dependency is available or not. Eg. vimclojure uses c.c.pprint and c.c.stacktrace/clj-stacktrace transparently depending on their availability.

There are perfectly legal uses of load. I don't see any "unadvisable" here.

cemerick said: Thanks, Meikel; I had forgotten about that use case, as I don't use load directly myself at all. I probably wouldn't say it's inadvisable, just mostly unnecessary. In any case, that's a good catch. It complicates things a bit, but we'll see what happens. I'm going to take another whack at resolving the proxy/gen-class case and narrowing the impact of nontransitivity to use and require later tonight.

I agree wholeheartedly that this should be in 1.2, assuming the technical bits work out. This has been an irritant for quite a long time. I actually believe that nontransitivity should be the default – no one wants or expects to have classfiles show up for dependencies show up when a project is AOT-compiled. I think the only negative impact would be whoever still fiddles with compilation at the REPL, and doesn't use maven or lein – and even then, it's just a matter of binding another var.

meikelbrandmeyer said: Then the var should be added to the default bindings in the clojure.main repl. Then it's set!-able like the other vars ��� warn-on-reflection and friends.

cemerick said: This is looking pretty good (still WIP):

http://github.com/cemerick/clojure/commit/fedfb022ecef420a932b3d69c182ec7a8e5960a6

Thank you again for mentioning load, Meikel: it was very helpful in resolving the proxy/gen-class issue as well.

Just a single data point: the jar produced by the medium-sized project I've been using for testing the changes has shrunk from 1.8MB to less than 1MB. That's not the only reason this is a good change, but it's certainly a nice side-effect.

cemerick said: [file:aIWFiWHeGr35ImeJe5cbLA]

cemerick said: [file:aI7Eu-HeGr35ImeJe5cbLA]

cemerick said: Patched attached. The compat one retains the current default behaviour [*transitive-compile* true], the other changes the default so that transitivity is a non-default option. At least of those I've spoken to about this, the latter is preferred.

The user impact of changing the default would be:

1. The result of compiling from the REPL will change. Getting back current behaviour would require adding a [*transitive-compile* true] binding to the existing bindings one must set when compiling from the REPL.
2. The same as #1 goes for those scripting AOT compilation via clojure.lang.Compile as well (whether by shell scripts, ant, etc).
3. Those using lein, clojure-maven-plugin, gradle, and others will likely have a new option provided by those tools, and perhaps a different default than the language's. I suspect those using such tools would much prefer a change from the default behaviour in any case.

hlship said: Just had a brain-storm:

How about an option to support transitive compilation, but only if the Clojure source file being compiled as a file: URL (i.e., its a local file on the file system, not a file stored in a JAR). That would make it easier to use compilation on the local project without transitively compiling imported libraries, such as clojure-contrib.

So transitive-compile should be a keyword, not a boolean, with values :all (for 1.1 behavior), :none (to compile only the exact specified namespaces) or :local (to compile transitively, but only for local files, not source files from JARs).

cemerick said: (Crossposted to the clojure-dev list)

I thought about this some, and I don't think that's a good idea, at least for now. I'm uncomfortable with semantics changing depending upon where code is being loaded from – which, depending upon a tool's implementation, might be undefined. E.g. if the com.foo.bar ns is available in source form in one directory, but as classes from a jar, and classpaths aren't being constructed in a stable fashion, then the results of compilation will change.

If we decide that special treatment depending upon the source of code is warranted in the future, that's a fairly straightforward thing to do w.r.t. the API – we could have :all and :local as you suggest, with nil representing :none.

stu said: Rich is not comfortable enough with the implementation complexity of this patch (e.g. the guard clause for proxies and gen-class) to slide this in as a minor fix under the wire for 1.2.

Better to live with the pain we know a little longer than ship something we don't have enough experience with to be confident.

Updated patch to cleanly apply to HEAD and address issues raised by screening done by Cosmin Stejerean. Also includes proper tests.

Note: this patch's tests require the fix for CLJ-432!

the "-resolved" patch resolves a conflict in main.clj

Several questions:

1. I am getting an ant build error: "/Users/stuart/repos/clojure/build.xml:137: java.io.FileNotFoundException: Could not locate clojure/test_clojure/aot/nontransitive__init.class or clojure/test_clojure/aot/nontransitive.clj on classpath:"
2. It feels icky to have a method named writeClassFile that, under some circumstances, does not write a class file, but instead loads it via a dynamic loader. Maybe this is just a naming issue.
3. Are there any other ways to accomplish the goals of load-level? Or, taking the other side, if we are going to have a load-level, are there other possible consumers who might have different needs?
4. (Minor) Why the use :only idiom instead of just require?

An alternative approach: patch write-classes-1.diff.gz

From my forked branch

What this patch does:

• Keeps 'compile' and 'compile-files' exactly the same
• Adds 'compile-write-classes' to write .class files for specifically named classes
• Minor compiler changes to support this

This approach was prompted by the following observations:

• Java interop is the dominant reason for needing .class files
• Things other than namespaces can generate classes for Java interop:
  • deftype/defrecord
  • defprotocol
  • gen-class/gen-interface
• For library releases, we want to control which .class files are emitted on a per-class basis, not per-namespace
• Some legitimate uses of AOT compilation will want transitive compilation
  • Pre-compiling an entire application before release

S. Halloway: My apologies, I didn't know you had commented. I thought that, having assigned this issue to myself, I'd be notified of updates.

FWIW, I aim to review your comments and SS' approach over the weekend.

S. Halloway:

1. Certainly shouldn't happen. AFAIK, others have screened the patch, presumably with a successful build.
2. Agreed; given the approach, I think it's just a bad name.
3. Yes, I think S. Sierra's is one. See my next comment.
4. Because the :use form was already there. I've actually been using that form of :use more and more; I've found that easier than occasionally having to shuffle around specs between :use and :require. I think I'm aping Chris Houser in that regard.

I think S. Sierra's approach is fundamentally superior what I offered. I have two suggestions: one slight perspective change (which implies no change in the actual implementation), and an idea for an even simpler approach (at least from a user perspective), in that order.

While interop is the driving requirement behind AOT, I absolutely do not want to have to keep an updated enumeration of all of the classes resulting from each and every defrecord et al. usages in my pom.xml/project.clj (and I wouldn't wish the task of ferreting those usages and their resulting classnames on any build tool author).

Right now, *compile-write-classes* is documented to be a set of classname strings, but could just as easily be any other function. *compile-write-classes* should be documented to accept any predicate function (renamed to e.g. *compile-write-class?*?). There's no reason why it shouldn't be bound to, e.g. #(re-matches #"foo\.bar\.[\w_]+$" %) if I know that all my records are defined in the foo.bar namespace.

To go along with that, I think some package/classname-globbing utilities along with corresponding options to clojure.lang.Compile would be most welcome. Classname munging rules are not exactly obvious, and it'd be good to make things a little easier for users in this regard.

Another alternative

If there's a closed set of forms that generate classes that one might reasonably be interested in having in a build result (outside of use cases for pervasive AOT), then why not have a simple option that only those forms utilize? gen-class and gen-interface already do this, but reusing the all-or-nothing *compile-files* binding; if they keyed off of a binding that implied a diminished scope (e.g. *compile-interop-forms* – which would be true if *compile-files* were true), then they'd do exactly what we wanted. Extending this approach to deftype (and therefore defrecord) should be straightforward.

An implementation of this would probably be somewhat more complicated than S. Sierra's patch, though not as complex as my original stab at the problem (i.e. no *load-level*). On the plus side:

1. No additional configuration for users or implementation work for build tool authors, aside from the addition of the boolean diminished-scope AOT option
2. Class file generation would remain opaque from a build process standpoint
3. Future/other class-generating forms (there are a few people futzing with ASM independently, etc) can make local decisions about whether or not to participate in interop-centric classfile generation. This might be particularly helpful if a given form emits multiple classes, making the determination of a classname-based filter fn less straightforward.

I can see wanting to further restrict AOT to specific classnames in certain circumstances, in which case the above and S. Sierra's patch might be complimentary.

I like the idea of *compile-interop-forms*. But is it always possible to determine what an "interop form" is? I think it is, I'm just not sure.

I'm also in favor of compile-interop-forms. As far as determining, how about sticking metadata on the var?

(defmacro ^{:interop-form true} deftype ...)

Summary and design discussion on wiki at http://dev.clojure.org/display/design/Transitive+AOT+Compilation

New attachment compile-interop-1.patch has new approach: Add a third possible value for *compile-files*. True and false keep their original meanings, but :interop causes only interop-related forms to be written out as .class files. "Interop forms" are gen-class, gen-interface, deftype, defrecord, defprotocol, and definterface.

Pros:

• doesn't change existing behavior
• handles common case for non-transitive AOT (interop)
• minimal changes to the compiler

Cons:

• not flexible

Just realized my patch doesn't solve the transitive compilation problem. If library A loads library B, then compiling interop forms in A will also emit interop .class files in B.

It's disappointing to see an important issue like this still unresolved after 2.5 years. This is a real pain for us. We have a large closed source project where shipping source is not an option. This forces us to manage the AOT'ing of dependencies due to the hard dependency on protocol interfaces introduced by transitive AOT compilation (see https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/clojure-dev/r3A1JOIiwVU).

Paul, do you have a suggestion for which of the approaches described in comments here, or on the wiki page http://dev.clojure.org/display/design/Transitive+AOT+Compilation would be preferable solution for you? Or perhaps even a patch that implements your preferred approach?

Andy,

I'm now consulting with Paudi's organization, so I think I can speak for him (I'm now the default buildmeister).

I like Stuart's :interop idea, but that is somewhat orthogonal to our needs.

I return to what I would like; compilation would compile specific namespaces; dependencies of those namespaces would not be compiled.

To be honest, I'm still a little hung up on the interop forms: especially defprotocol and friends; from a cursory glance, it appears that todays AOT compilation will compile the protocol into a Java class, then compile the namespace that references the protocol with the assumption that the protocol's Java class is available. When we use build rules to only package our namespace's class files into the output JAR, the code fails with a NoClassDefFoundError because the protocol really needs to be recompiled, at runtime compilation, into an in-memory Java class.

Obviously, supporting this correctly will be a challenge; the compiled bytecode for our namespace would ideally:
1) check to see if the Java class already exists and use it if so
2) load the necessary namespaces so as to force the creation of the Java class

I can imagine any number of ways to juggle things to make this work, so I won't suggest a specific implementation.

In the meantime, our workaround is to create a "stub" module as part of our build; it simply requires in the necessary namespaces (for example, org.clojure:core.cache); this forces an AOT compile of the dependencies and we have a special rule to package such dependencies in the stub module's output JAR. This may not be a scalable problem, and it is expensive to identify what 3rd party dependencies require this treatment.

Converted from http://www.assembla.com/spaces/clojure/tickets/124
Attachments:
compile-agent-shutdown.patch - https://www.assembla.com/spaces/clojure/documents/a56S2ow4ur3O2PeJe5afGb/download/a56S2ow4ur3O2PeJe5afGb
124-compilation.diff - https://www.assembla.com/spaces/clojure/documents/aqn0IGxZSr3RUGeJe5aVNr/download/aqn0IGxZSr3RUGeJe5aVNr

oranenj said: [file:a56S2ow4ur3O2PeJe5afGb]

richhickey said: Updating tickets (#8, #19, #30, #31, #126, #17, #42, #47, #50, #61, #64, #69, #71, #77, #79, #84, #87, #89, #96, #99, #103, #107, #112, #113, #114, #115, #118, #119, #121, #122, #124)

cemerick said: (In [[r:fa3d24973fc415b35ae6ec8d84b61ace76bd4133]]) Add a call to Agent.shutdown() at the end of clojure.lang.Compile/main Refs #124

Signed-off-by: Chouser <chouser@n01se.net>

Branch: master

chouser@n01se.net said: I'm closing this ticket to because the attached patch solves a specific problem. I agree that the idea of an auto-shutdown-agents var sounds like a positive compromise. If Rich wants a ticket to track that issue, I think it'd be best to open a new ticket (and perhaps mention this one there) rather than use this ticket to track further changes.

scgilardi said: With both Java 5 and Java 6 on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard I'm getting an error when compiling with this change present.

Java 1.5.0_19
Java 1.6.0_13

For example, when building clojure using "ant" from within my clone of the clojure repo:

[java] java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.lang.RuntimePermission modifyThread)
[java] at java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext.java:264)
[java] at java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(AccessController.java:427)
[java] at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.shutdown(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:894)
[java] at clojure.lang.Agent.shutdown(Agent.java:34)
[java] at clojure.lang.Compile.main(Compile.java:71)

I reproduced this on two Mac OS X 10.5 machines. I'm not aware of having any enhanced security policies along these lines on my machines. The compile goes fine for me with Java 1.6.0_0 on an Ubuntu box.

chouser@n01se.net said: I had only tested it on my ubuntu box – looks like that was openjdk 1.6.0_0. I'll test again with sun-java5 and sun-java6.

chouser@n01se.net said: 1.6.0_13 worked fine for me on ubuntu, but 1.5.0_18 generated an the exception Steve pasted. Any suggestions? Should this patch be backed out until someone has a fix?

achimpassen said: [file:aqn0IGxZSr3RUGeJe5aVNr]

chouser@n01se.net said: With Achim's patch, clojure compiles for me on ubuntu using java 1.5.0_18 from sun, and still works on 1.6.0_13 sun and 1.6.0_0 openjdk. I don't know anything about ant or the security error, but this is looking good to me.

achimpassen said: It works for me on 1.6.0_13 and 1.5.0_19 (32 and 64 bit) on OS X 10.5.7.

chouser@n01se.net said: (In [[r:895b39dabc17b3fd766fdbac3b0757edb0d4b60d]]) Rev fa3d2497 causes compile to fail on some VMs – back it out. Refs #124

Branch: master

mikehinchey said: I got the same compile error on both 1.5.0_11 and 1.6.0_14 on Windows. Achim's patch fixes both.

See the note for "permissions" on http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/java.html . I assume ThreadPoolExecutor.shutdown is the problem, it would shutdown the main Ant thread, so Ant disallows that. Forking avoids the permissions limitation.

In addition, since the build error still resulted in "BUILD SUCCESSFUL", I think failonerror="true" should also be added to the java call so the build would totally fail for such an error.

chouser@n01se.net said: I don't know if the <java fork=true> patch is a good idea or not, or if there's a better way to solve the original problem.

Chas, I'm kicking back to you, but I guess if you don't want it you can reassign to "nobody".

richhickey said: Updating tickets (#8, #42, #113, #2, #20, #94, #96, #104, #119, #124, #127, #149, #162)

shoover said: I'd like to suggest an alternate approach. There are already well-defined and intuitive ways to block on agents and futures. Why not deprecate shutdown-agents and force users to call await and deref if they really want to block? In the pmap situation one would have to evaluate the pmap form.

The System.exit problem goes away if you configure the threadpools to use daemon threads (call new ThreadPoolExecutor and pass a thread factory that creates threads and sets daemon to true). That way the user has an explicit means of blocking and System.exit won't hang.

alexdmiller said: I blogged about these issues at:
http://tech.puredanger.com/2010/06/08/clojure-agent-thread-pools/

I think that:

• agent thread pool threads should be named (see ticket #378)
• agent thread pools must be daemon threads by default
• having ways to specify an customized executor pool for an agent send/send-off is essential to customize threading behavior
• (shutdown-agents) should be either deprecated or made less dangerous

Rich, what is the intention behind using non-daemon threads in the agent pools?

If it is because daemon threads could terminate before their work is complete, would it be acceptable to add a shutdown hook to ensure against such premature termination? Such a shutdown hook could call Agent.shutdown(), then awaitTermination() on the pools.

Moving this ticket out of approval "OK" status, and dropping the priority. These were Assembla import defaults.

Also, Chas gets to be the Reporter now.

Heh, blast from the past.

The comment import appears to have set their timestamps to the date of the import, so the conversation is pretty hard to follow, and obviously doesn't benefit from the intervening years of experience. In addition, there have been plenty of changes to agents, including some recent enhancements that address some of the pain points that Alex Miller mentioned above.

I propose closing this as 'invalid' or whatever, and opening one or more new issues to track whatever issues still persist (presumably based on fresh ML discussion, etc).

Rereading the original description of this ticket, without reading all of the comments that follow, that description is still right on target for the behavior of latest Clojure master today.

People send messages to the Clojure Google group every couple of months hitting this issue, and one even filed CLJ-959 because of hitting it. I have updated the examples on ClojureDocs.org for future, and also for pmap and clojure.java.shell/sh which use future in their implementations, to warn people about this and explain that they should call (shutdown-agents), but making it unnecessary to call shutdown-agents would be even better, at least as the default behavior. It sounds fine to me to provide a way for experts on thread behavior to change that default behavior if they need to.

After patch:

user=> (meta '^:foo [])
{:foo true}
user=> (meta '^:foo [:a])
{:foo true}
user=> (def ^:const foo ^:foo [])
#'user/foo
user=> (meta foo)
{:foo true}

I believe the title should read "Clojure loses quoted metdata on empty literals".

At first glance, the implementation looks wrong in that it blocks non-IObjs ever getting to EmptyExpr. Probably all persistent collections are IObjs, but would not want to bake this in.

You're right, I've updated my patch, it should work as expected now

Nicola: Your updated patch 001-CLJ-1187.patch dated Mar 29, 2013 gives syntax errors when I try to compile it.

Oh, the irony, I messed up some parentheses writing java.

Sorry for it, here's the correct patch, it applies on upstream/master.

Attached patches test and fix issue + tangent

Note: Patch 0003 just adds the arity check, hence is optional, but if it's omitted from the patchset, the corresponding test from patch 0001 will fail.

Summarizing the decisions in these patches:

• instance? and apply instance? should be consistent
• they should check arity (matching apply instance? existing behavior)
• they should allow lexical shadowing of the class argument (matching apply instance? existing behavior)

It is possible (although unlikely) that existing code relies on the current eccentric behavior of instance?. I think it would be fair to categorize programs relying on this behavior as buggy, but that is easy for me to say.

Clojure 1.5.0-alpha4, Sun Java 1.6.0_35, with [org.codehaus.jsr166-mirror/jsr166y "1.7.0"]

Verified as a bug.

Converted from http://www.assembla.com/spaces/clojure/tickets/420

stu said: Updating tickets (#427, #426, #421, #420, #397)

stu said: Updating tickets (#429, #437, #397, #420)

maybe clojure should follow clojurescript's footsteps and move empty out of IPersistentCollection and create an
interface IEmptyableCollection extends IPersistentCollection { IEmptyableCollection empty(); }

Can whoever claims this please consider walk's behavior in the face of all different collection types? I think it also fails with Java collections.

Also, the collection partitioning code in clojure.data may be of use.

Fix for this defect.

The throwArity now attempts to locate and call clojure.main/demunge. If it finds the function it invokes it and uses the returned string in the error. Otherwise it just throws the actual class name. This results in the following behaviour:

user=> (defn a->b [])
#'user/a->b
user=> (a->b 32)
ArityException Wrong number of args (1) passed to: user/a->b clojure.lang.AFn.throwArity (AFn.java:449)
user=>

Confirmed. APersistentVector$SubVector does not implement IEditableCollection.

The current implementation of TransientVector depends on implementation details of PersistentVector, so it is not a trivial fix. The simplest fix might be to implement IEditableCollection.asTransient in SubVector by creating a new PersistentVector, but I do not know the performance implications.

Clojure commit 9052ca1854b7b6202dba21fe2a45183a4534c501, version 1.3.0-master-SNAPSHOT

The problem is that a 'loop form gets converted into an anonymous fn that gets called immediately, when the loop is in a expression context (eg. its return value is needed, but not as the return value of a method/fn).

so

(fn [] (loop [b 0] (recur (loop [a 1] a))))

gets converted into

(fn [] (loop [b 0] (recur ((fn [] (loop [a 1] a))))))

see the code in the compiler:
http://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/jvm/clojure/lang/Compiler.java#L5572

this conversion already bites you if you have mutable fields in a deftype and want to 'set! them in a loop

http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-274

loops in expression context are lifted into fns because else Hotspot doesn't optimize them.
This causes several problems:

• type inference doesn't propagate outside of the loop[1]
• the return value is never a primitive
• mutable fields are inaccessible
• surprise allocation of one closure objects each time the loop is entered.

Adressing all those problems isn't easy.
One can compute the type of the loop and emit a type hint but it works only with reference types. To make it works with primitive, primitie fns aren't enough since they return only long/double: you have to add explicit casts.
So solving the first two points can be done in a rather lccal way.
The two other points require more impacting changes, the goal would be to emit a method rather than a fn. So it means at the very least changing ObjExpr and adding a new subclassof ObjMethod.

[1] beware of CLJ-1111 when testing.

Notes from the dev mailing list:

The "sources" JAR is generated by another Maven plugin, configured here:
https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/clojure-1.5.0-RC15/pom.xml#L169-L181

The simplest solution might be to just exclude the file from the sources jar. It looks like maven-source-plugin has an excludes option which would do the trick:

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-source-plugin/jar-mojo.html#excludes

I have encountered this problem as well. Did not verify the explanation, but sounds reasonable.

Windows 7; JVM 1.6; Clojure 1.3 beta 1

Reproduced on 1.4.0 and 1.5.0-RC1 as well, albeit with this example:

(seque 3 (seque 3 (range 10)))

release-pending-sends?

Tested on Mac OS X 10.8 and Oracle JVM 1.7.0 update 13.

This sounds reasonable, but anything touching classloaders must be considered very carefully.

It seems overly complex to have the patch do so much code generation. Why not implement a method that does this job, and have the generated code call that?

Converted from http://www.assembla.com/spaces/clojure/tickets/348
Attachments:
0001-Add-a-test-for-348-reify-shouldn-t-accept-qualified-.patch - https://www.assembla.com/spaces/clojure/documents/d2xUJIxTyr36fseJe5cbLA/download/d2xUJIxTyr36fseJe5cbLA

technomancy said: [file:d2xUJIxTyr36fseJe5cbLA]: A test to expose the unwanted behaviour

richhickey said: I'm not sure the bug is what you say it is, or the resolution should be what you suggest. The true problem is the resolution of key when qualified. Another possibility is to ignore the qualifier there.

technomancy said: Interesting. So it's not appropriate to require auto-gensym here? Why are the rules different for reify methods vs proxy methods?

> (defmacro lookup []
`(proxy [clojure.lang.ILookup] []
(valAt [key] key)))
> (lookup)

Can't use qualified name as parameter: clojure.core/key
[Thrown class java.lang.Exception]

In a quickly hacked up performance test on Mac OS X 10.6.8 + Oracle/Apple JDK 1.6.0_35 which I can attach, I saw about a 9% to 10% slowdown for Colin's patch in printing large vectors.

I have a modified patch that only calls Thread/interrupted after every 20 items are printed, and with that version the slowdown versus the original code was about 3% to 4%.

Colin, would there be any down side to checking Thread/interrupted less often for your purposes?

To run performance test, edit attachment compile.sh to point at your clojure.jar, put file perftest-print.clj in the same directory, and run ./compile.sh It should work on Mac or Linux.

clj-1073-allow-thread-interrupt-in-print-sequential-patch.txt dated Sep 22 2012 is similar to Colin's patch 0001-Allow-thread-interruption-in-print-sequential.patch dated Sep 21 2012, except it only checks interrupted status every 20 (or maybe 21?) times through the loop in print-sequential. It is the one that is 3-4% slower than the current latest master Clojure code in my performance test mentioned above, versus Colin's patch which is about 9-10% slower on that test.

Is this primarily intended for dev-time use? I wouldn't want to lose performance for this if there is any way to implement it as a dev-time feature.

Andy: The only caveat I can think of with checking Thread/interrupted less often is in the case of deeply nested collections.

Stu: Dev-time use was the original reason for opening this, yes. But I can imagine it being needed for anytime a thread can be interrupted, whether that's by ctrl-c or other means.

My original thinking, performance-wise, was that once we're already doing IO, we're probably not too concerned with CPU-bound checks like this, so I didn't bother with it. I guess with an SSD that's not as likely to be true.

Locally (w/ my SSD), I'm seeing that Andy's benchmark of printing a million numbers is about a second slower than the baseline with my original patch (12.08s -> 13.10s), and about the same with Andy's patch (12.08s -> 11.75s). Decreasing to a thousand numbers doesn't really show any difference (every version completes in ~1.3s). Bumping to 2 million adds 2 seconds above the baseline with my patch, and Andy's is again just a bit faster than the baseline (somehow). Bumping to 5 million runs me out of heap space

clj-1073-add-print-interruptibly-patch-v1.txt dated Nov 8 2012 is the same idea as Colin's patch 0001-Allow-thread-interruption-in-print-sequential.patch dated Sep 21 2012, except it only checks (Thread/interrupted) if a new var print-interruptibly is true. Its default value is false.

Performance results of the perftest-print.clj program, as driven by the test.sh script, for Clojure 1.5-beta1 and with two different patches. All run times are elapsed, in seconds, and sorted in increasing order for easier comparison.

Executive summary: Performance results when print-interruptibly is left at default false value are pretty much same as today. With print-interruptibly bound to true, performance results are slower, as expected, and about the same as with Colin's patch.

Original 1.5-beta1 unchanged:
13.75 13.80 13.83 13.87 13.93

With this new print-interruptibly patch, with print-interruptibly
at default false value:
13.86 13.91 14.01 14.08 14.14

With this new print-interruptibly patch, with print-interruptibly
bound to true while printing (so a slightly modified version of
perftest-print.clj that does (binding [*print-interruptibly* true]
...) around the heart of the code):
15.29 15.44 15.45 15.62 15.63

With patch 0001-Allow-thread-interruption-in-print-sequential.patch
applied:
15.38 15.46 15.48 15.49 15.50

Andy's latest patch looks good & makes it easy for the REPL and other interruptible scenarios to opt into the "safe" behavior. I would personally have preferred to have the "safe" behavior on by default, but can understand the performance concerns, and this gets me what I really wanted.

Vetting as it sounds like the performance issues are taken care of.

clj-1073-add-print-interruptibly-patch-v2.txt dated Feb 12 2013 is identical to clj-1073-add-print-interruptibly-patch-v1.txt dated Nov 8 2012 (soon to be removed) except that it applies cleanly to latest master.

The suggested patch (clj-1100-reader-literal-periods.patch) will break reading records when *default-data-reader-fn* is set. Try adding a test like this:

(deftest tags-containing-periods-with-default
      ;; we need a predefined record for this test so we (mis)use clojure.reflect.Field for convenience
      (let [v "#clojure.reflect.Field{:name \"fake\" :type :fake :declaring-class \"Fake\" :flags nil}"]
        (binding [*default-data-reader-fn* nil]
          (is (= (read-string v) #clojure.reflect.Field{:name "fake" :type :fake :declaring-class "Fake" :flags nil})))
        (binding [*default-data-reader-fn* (fn [tag val] (assoc val :meaning 42))]
          (is (= (read-string v) #clojure.reflect.Field{:name "fake" :type :fake :declaring-class "Fake" :flags nil})))))

The problem assessment is ok, but the resolution approach may not be. What happens should be based not upon what is in data-readers but whether or not the name names a class.

Is the intent here to allow readers to circumvent records? I'm not in favor of that.

New patch following Rich's comments. The decision to read a record is now based on the symbol containing periods and not having a namespace. Otherwise, it is considered a data reader tag. User
defined tags are required to be qualified but they may now have periods in the name. Tests added to show that
data readers cannot override record classes. Note: Clojure-defined data reader tags may be unqualified, but they should not contain periods in order to avoid confusion with record classes.

I deleted my old patch and some comments referring to it to avoid confusion.

In Clojure 1.5 beta 1, # followed by a qualified symbol with a period in the name is considered a record and causes an exception for the missing record class. With the patch, only non-qualified symbols containing periods are considered records. That allows user-defined qualified symbols with periods in their names to be used as data reader tags.

clj-1100-periods-in-data-reader-tags-patch-v2.txt dated Feb 7 2013 is identical to CLJ-1100-periods-in-data-reader-tags.patch dated Nov 29 2012, except it applies cleanly to latest master. The only change appears to be in some white space in the context lines.

I've removed clj-1100-periods-in-data-reader-tags-patch-v2.txt mentioned in the previous comment, because I learned that CLJ-1100-periods-in-data-reader-tags.patch dated Nov 29 2012 applies cleanly to latest master and passes all tests if you use this command to apply it.

% git am --keep-cr -s --ignore-whitespace < CLJ-1100-periods-in-data-reader-tags.patch

I've already updated the JIRA workflow and screening patches wiki pages to mention this --ignore-whitespace option.

Both of the current patches, CLJ-1100-periods-in-data-reader-tags.patch dated Nov 29 2012, and clj-1100-reader-literal-periods.patch dated Nov 6 2012, fail to apply cleanly to latest master (1.5.0-RC15) as of today, although they did last week. Given all of the changes around read / read-string and edn recently, they should probably be evaluated by their authors to see how they should be updated.

I deleted my patch: CLJ-1100-periods-in-data-reader-tags.patch. clj-1100-reader-literal-periods.patch is clearly wrong, but the original author or an administrator has to delete that.

I cannot figure out how to remove my attachment (clj-1100-reader-literal-periods.patch) in JIRA.

Downarrow (popup) menu to the right of the "Attachments" section. Choose "manager attachments".

Great, thanks Steve. Are you going to take another pass at this issue, or should I give it a go?

Kevin, I'm not planning to work on this right now as 1.5 is pretty much done. It might be worthwhile discussing the issue a bit on the dev mailing list before working on a patch, but that's up to you. I think my approach was correct, although now changes would have to be applied to both LispReader and EdnReader.

1.7.0-08, OS X 10.8

Confirmed to be broken on master. Vetting. Not sure what it's going to take to fix this, however. If this is of intrest for you, you might want to help push it along by providing a patch.

There is no code or ticket for this yet, but I wanted to mention that I've begun working on an implementation of RRB-Tree (Relaxed Radix Balanced Tree) vectors for Clojure (see discussion at https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/clojure-dev/xnbtzTVEK9A). Assuming it is no big deal to get reducers to work on such vectors, subvec could be implemented in O(log n) time in such a way that the result was the same concrete type of vector as you started with, and thus reducers would work on them, too.

It would mean O(log n) time for subvec instead of today's O(1), but this would likely fix other limitations that exist today with subvec's, e.g. CLJ-761.

I have a fix for this and a regression test in the tree below:

https://github.com/mikera/clojure/tree/winfix

Not sure how best to make this into a patch though - I also have the pprint fix in here (CLJ-1076)

Attached a patch that I created with:

git format-patch winfix --stdout HEAD~3..HEAD > clj-1082.patch

Does this do the trick? I had to use the HEAD~3..HEAD to just get the most recent 3 commits and exclude the pprint changes that I needed in order to build on Windows.

Patch for CLJ-1082, containing 3 commits

Mike, your patch clj-1082.patch applies cleanly to latest master for me, so looks like you found one way to do it.

Another would be as follows, and closer to the directions on the JIRA workflow page: http://dev.clojure.org/display/design/JIRA+workflow (but not identical). Note that these commands would work on Mac OS X or Linux. I'm not sure what the correct corresponding command would be on Windows for the "git am" step below, unless that just happens to work because Windows and/or git implement the input redirection with "<" somehow.

1. Check out a fresh repo
   $ git clone git://github.com/clojure/clojure.git
   $ cd clojure

1. Apply the patch for CLJ-1076 to the master branch. This step isn't on the JIRA workflow page.
   $ git am --keep-cr -s < clj-1076-fix-tests-on-windows-patch-v1.txt

1. Create a branch for yourself
   $ git checkout -b fix-clj-1082

1. After editing to make your changes, commit them to the current fix-clj-1082 branch
   $ git commit -a -m "fixed annoying bug, refs #42"

From there on down it is the same as the instructions on the JIRA workflow page. The "git format-patch master --stdout > file.patch" will create a patch for the changes you have made in the current branch fix-clj-1082 starting from the master branch, which has the CLJ-1076 fix because of the 'git am' command above.

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS; Java 1.7.0_05 Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM

The '@' character is not a legal character for keywords or symbols (see http://clojure.org/reader). Recategorized as enhancement request.

Then why doesn't (keyword "keywith@") throw an exception? It seems inconsistent with your statement.

It is a long standing property of Clojure that it does not throw exceptions for everything that is illegal.

Yeah, but read-string clearly does. Is there a good reason that the "keyword" function can't throw an exception? With the other special rules on namespaces within symbol names, the "keyword" function really should be doing validation.

Another solution would be to allow a ruby-like :"symbol with disallowed characters" literal, but that would also be confusing with how the namespace is handled.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/clojure/Ct5v9w0yNAE has some older discussion on this topic.

Disclaimer: I'm not a Clojure/core member, just an interested contributor who doesn't know all the design decisions that were made here.

Steven, I think perhaps a couple of concerns are: (1) doing such checks would be slower than not doing them, and (2) implementing such checks means having to update them if/when the rules for legal symbols, keywords, namespace names, etc. change.

Would you be interested in writing strict versions of functions like symbol and keyword for addition to a contrib library? And test suites that try to hit a significant number of corner cases in the rules for what is legal and what is not? I mean those as serious questions, not rhetorical ones. This would permit people that want to use the strict versions of these functions to do so, and at the same time make it easy to measure performance differences between the strict and loose versions.

Looking back at this, the root cause of the problem is that the {pr} function, although it by default "print[s] in a way that objects can be read by the reader" [0], doesn't always do so. Thus, the easiest "fix" is to change its docstring to warn that not all keywords can be read back.

The deeper problem is that symbol don't have a reader form that can represent all actually possible keywords (in this case, those with "@" in them). Restricting the actually-possible keywords to match the reader form, i.e. writing a strict "keyword" function actually seems like a worse solution overall to me. The better solution would be to somehow extend the keyword reader form to allow it to express all possible keywords, possibly ruby's :"keyword" syntax. Plus, that solution would avoid having to keep hypothetical strict keyword/symbol functions in sync with reader operation, and write test cases for that, and so on.

Thus, the resolution of this bug comes down to how far we're willing to go. Changing the docstring would be the easiest, but extending the keyword form would be the "best" resolution, IMO.

[0]: http://clojuredocs.org/clojure_core/clojure.core/pr

Mac OS, Java 6

The with-redefs doc (v1.4.0) says "These temporary changes will be visible in all threads." That sounds non-thread-safe to me.

In general, changes to var root bindings are not thread safe.

As I understand it, with-redefs is mainly used in test suites to mock out vars. It was introduced when vars became static by default and a lot of testsuites had been using binding for mocking. Maybe the docstring should be amended with something along the lines of: When using this you have to ensure that only a single thread is interacting with redef'd vars.

Behavior find as is, doc string change would be fine.

Patch clj-1104-doc-unsafety-of-concurrent-with-redefs-v1.txt dated Nov 25 2012 updates doc string of with-redefs to make it clear that concurrent use is unsafe.

Whoops, according to http://dev.clojure.org/display/design/JIRA+workflow I should have emailed clojure-dev before filing this ticket. Here is the discussion:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/clojure-dev/ME3-Ke-RbNk/discussion

Attached 001-make-PersistentQueue-implement-List.diff, 15/Sep/12

Note that this patch has a minor conflict with the one I added to CLJ-1070, because both add an extra interface to PersistentQueue - List in this case, IHashEq in CLJ-1070.

Philip, patch looks pretty good – thanks for doing this. A couple notes:

This is only my opinion, but I prefer imports be listed without wildcards, even if it means an extra couple lines at the top of a .java file.

I noticed the "List stuff" code is a copy of what's in ASeq and EmptyList. I suppose this is copied because EmptyList and PersistentQueue extend Obj and therefore can't extend ASeq. Is this the only reason? It seems a shame to duplicate these method definitions, but I don't know of a better solution, do you?

It would also be nice if the test check a couple of the List methods you've implemented.

oh, also "git am" refused to apply the patch, but I'm not sure why. "patch -p 1" worked perfectly.

did you use the --keep-cr option to git am?

I struggled to know whether I should be adding CRs or not to line endings, because the files I was editing weren't consistent in their usage. If you open them in emacs, half the lines have ^M at the end.

Will submit another patch, with the import changed. I'll have a think about the list implementation and see what ideas I can come up with.

Attached 002-make-PersistentQueue-implement-Asequential.diff

This patch is an alternative to 001-make-PersistentQueue-implement-List.diff

So I took on board what you said about ASeq, but it didn't feel right making PersistentQueue directly implement ISeq, somehow.

So I split ASeq into two parts – ASequential, which implements j.u.{Collection,List} and manages List-equality and hashcodes; and ASeq, which... doesn't seem to be doing much anymore, to be honest.

As a bonus, this patch fixes CLJ-1070 too, so I went and added the tests from that ticket in to demonstrate this fact. It also tidies up PersistentQueue by removing all equals/hashcCode stuff and all Collection stuff.

(It turns out that because ASeq was already implementing Obj, the fact that PersistentQueue was implementing Obj was no barrier to using it.)

Would appreciate comments on this approach, and how it differs from the previous patch here and the patch on CLJ-1070.

Looking at EmptyList's implementation of List, it is a duplicate of the others, but it shouldn't be. I think its implementation of indexOf is the biggest culprit - it should just be 'return -1;' but it has a great big for loop! But this is beyond the scope of this ticket, so I won't patch that here.

Philip, now that the patch for CLJ-1070 has been applied, these patches no longer apply cleanly. Would you be willing to update them? If so, please remove the obsolete patches.

Andy, thanks so much for your efforts to make people aware of these things. I will indeed submit new patches, hopefully later this week.

Replaced existing patches with new ones which apply cleanly to master.

There are two patches:

001-clj-1059-make-persistentqueue-implement-list.diff

This fixes equality by making PersistentQueue implement List directly. I also took the opportunity to remove the wildcard import and to add tests for the List methods, as compared with the previous version of the patch.

002-clj-1059-asequential.diff

This fixes equality by creating a new abstract class ASequential, and making PersistentQueue extend this.

My preferred solution is still the ASequential patch, but I'm leaving both here for comparison.

Vetting.

Philip, this time I think it was patches that were committed for CLJ-1000 that make your patch 002-clj-1059-asequential.diff not apply cleanly. I often fix up stale patches where the change is straightforward and mechanical, but in this case you are moving some methods that CLJ-1000's patch changed the implementation of, so it would be best if someone figured out a way to update this patch in a way that doesn't clobber the CLJ-1000 changes.

Thanks Andy. Submitted a new patch, 002-clj-1059-asequential-rebased-to-cached-hasheq.diff, which supersedes 002-clj-1059-asequential.diff.

The patch 001-clj-1059-make-persistentqueue-implement-list.diff still applies cleanly, and is still an alternative to 002-clj-1059-asequential-rebased-to-cached-hasheq.diff.

clj-1102-improve-empty-stack-trace-handling-v1.txt dated Nov 4 2012 improves the handling of .getStackTrace returning a length 0 array in two places. I checked all other places .getStackTrace was called and they seem to already handle this case gracefully.

Vetting.

Probably all, but observed on Ubuntu 12.04, OpenJDK 6

Sorry, I typo'd the example. (defn total ...) should be (defn sum ...).

fixed typeo in example

Couldn't reproduce the exception, but the 2nd example did chew through about 4x the amount of memory. Vetting.

adding a patch. Since most of Clojure ends up running this code in one way or another, I'd assert that tests are included as part of the normal Clojure test process.

Patch simply calls Util.ret1(argx, argx=null) on all invoke calls.

And as a note, both examples in the original report now have extremely similar memory usages.

Sounds great, and the patch looks good too. Let me know if I need to do anything else.

Can not reproduce the fist error:

user=> (defprotocol Foo (f ([this]) ([this arg])))
CompilerException java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Parameter declaration missing, compiling:(NO_SOURCE_PATH:5:1)

But the 2nd one I can reproduce:

user=> (defprotocol Bar (m [this]) (m [this arg]))
Bar
user=> Bar
{:on-interface user.Bar, :on user.Bar, :sigs {:m {:doc nil, :arglists ([this arg]), :name m}}, :var #'user/Bar, :method-map {:m :m}, :method-builders {#'user/m #<user$eval71$fn_72 user$eval71$fn_72@1a2b53fb>}}
user=>

Notice that :arglists only has one entry

Vetting

Should I have made this implement Seqable as well? It wasn't clear to me, because as far as I could see this was the only function in clojure.core.reducers that's generating a brand-new sequence rather than transforming an existing one.

Previous version neglected to include the seed value of the iteration in the reduce.

Currying iterate seems useless, albeit not harmful.

While implementing repeat, I couldn't use currying. Because 1-arity is already reserved for infinite repeat ([n x] and [x], not [n x] and [n] if currying)

How about we just support currying for functions where last param is reducible?

This new patch replaces the previous patch. As requested, I am splitting up the large issue CLJ-993 into smaller tickets.

Does not depend on any of my other reducer patches, but there will probably be some minor merge conflicts unless it is merged after CLJ-1045 and CLJ-1046, and before CLJ-993.

Ubuntu, lein 1.7.1 - lein repl

This is caused by the printer dispatch function

(defmulti print-method (fn [x writer]
                         (let [t (get (meta x) :type)]
                           (if (keyword? t) t (class x)))))

which ends up calling the default dispatch, which tries to vary-meta.

This seems useful. Rich, would you accept a patch?

Nevermind, just saw that Rich already suggested this on the dev list. Patch away.

Converted from http://www.assembla.com/spaces/clojure/tickets/47

richhickey said: Updating tickets (#8, #19, #30, #31, #126, #17, #42, #47, #50, #61, #64, #69, #71, #77, #79, #84, #87, #89, #96, #99, #103, #107, #112, #113, #114, #115, #118, #119, #121, #122, #124)

aredington said: This appears to still be a problem with the generated bytecode in 1.3.0. Examining the bytecode for last, the problem has moved to invokeStatic:

<pre>
public static java.lang.Object invokeStatic(java.lang.Object) throws java.lang.Exception;
Code:
0: aload_0
1: invokestatic #50; //Method clojure/core$next.invokeStatic:(Ljava/lang/Object;)Ljava/lang/Object;
4: dup
5: ifnull 25
8: getstatic #56; //Field java/lang/Boolean.FALSE:Ljava/lang/Boolean;
11: if_acmpeq 26
14: aload_0
15: invokestatic #50; //Method clojure/core$next.invokeStatic:(Ljava/lang/Object;)Ljava/lang/Object;
18: astore_0
19: goto 0
22: goto 30
25: pop
26: aload_0
27: invokestatic #59; //Method clojure/core$first.invokeStatic:(Ljava/lang/Object;)Ljava/lang/Object;
30: areturn
</pre>

Line number 22 is an unreachable goto given the prior goto on line 19.

Converted from http://www.assembla.com/spaces/clojure/tickets/274

donmullen said: Updated each run to [_] for new syntax.

Now gives exception listed.

richhickey said: We're not going to allow closing over mutable fields. Instead we'll have to generate something other than fn for loops et al used as expressions. Not going to come before cinc