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The edn spec inaccurately describes what characters are allowed in symbols. #62

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bitemyapp opened this issue Nov 20, 2013 · 3 comments
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The edn spec inaccurately describes what characters are allowed in symbols. #62

bitemyapp opened this issue Nov 20, 2013 · 3 comments

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@bitemyapp
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Just show the damn symbolPat regex from Clojure core.

The spec even forgets < is a valid symbol despite using it in the Datomic tutorial.
@alexanderkiel
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You are right (type (clojure.edn/read-string "<")) returns clojure.lang.Symbol in clojure 1.5.1.

@alexanderkiel
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To clarify this further, the spec says in section symbols:

Symbols begin with a non-numeric character

This includes <.

@richhickey richhickey reopened this Jan 8, 2014
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@benmosher benmosher mentioned this issue Jul 9, 2014
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frankleonrose added a commit to frankleonrose/jsedn that referenced this issue Jun 11, 2016
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Added < and > as valid symbol characters
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Per edn-format/edn#62
@rnewman rnewman mentioned this issue Feb 28, 2017
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