On Jan 6, 9:54 am, Chouser <chou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:29 PM, rzeze...@gmail.com <rzeze...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I was just messing around with array's and produced the following
> > exception. I don't actually need this to work for any reason, but I
> > was rather surprised by the behavior. Is this a bug or expected
> > behavior? Please note I'm using revision 1195.
>
> > user=> (alength nil)
> > java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: More than one matching method
> > found: alength (NO_SOURCE_FILE:146)
>
> The docs say "Works on arrays of all types" and last I checked, nil is
> not an array of any type.
> What would you expect it to do?
>
> --Chouser
Thanks for the reply Chris. I'm not sure what I would expect it to
do. I just found the actual exception returned to be odd. For
example, compare it to the following:
user=> (alength "ryan")
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Argument is not an array
(NO_SOURCE_FILE:0)
That exception makes sense, because I called alength on something that
is not a primitive Java array. I would expect the same from calling
'(alength nil)' (or maybe even just return nil). This doesn't really
bother me, but I just thought I'd be a good steward and mention
something on the list.
-Ryan
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