On Wednesday 17 December 2008 06:14, Meikel Brandmeyer wrote: > Hi, > > On 17 Dez., 14:55, MikeM <michael.messini...@invista.com> wrote: > > ((sorted-map 'a 1 'b 2) "a") => ClassCastException > > > > I would think that sorted-maps and hash-maps should both give nil > > for this, but perhaps the sorted-map implementation requires a > > cast? > > Obviously a string is not a symbol. A sorted-map only > makes sense with comparable keys. How do you compare > a string and a symbol for sorting? And indeed: > > ((sorted-map 'a 1 'b 2) 'c) => nil > > I think, that this is a bug - not in sorted-map, but in the user > code providing a wrong (type of) key.
What about when you use the three-argument form of (get ...) on a sorted map with a type mismatch on the supplied lookup key? One _might_ argue that in that case the exception should be caught and the default value returned. > Sincerely > Meikel Randall Schulz --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
