Many thanks to you Bill - it works! .Bill Smith at "Fri, 1 Jan 2010 10:44:37 -0800 (PST)" wrote: .S> Happy New Year to you, Alex.
.S> I reproduced the problem as follows: .S> user=> (loop [x (byte 0) count 0] .S> (if (< count 10) (recur 0 (inc count)))) .S> java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: recur .S> arg for primitive local: x must be matching primitive (NO_SOURCE_FILE: .S> 57) .S> user=> .S> If the compiler detects that a loop binding evaluates to a primitive, .S> it insists that the corresponding recur argument be a reducible to a .S> primitive as well. You can short-circuit that logic with a type hint, .S> like this: .S> user=> (loop [x #^Object (byte 0)] .S> (if (< x 10) (recur (inc x)))) .S> nil .S> user=> .S> It's ugly but it works. If you change line 65 in your example from .S> "char (.read ireader)]" to "char #^Object (.read ireader)]", the .S> compile error should go away. The example in my previous posting .S> didn't have that problem because 0 by itself is an Integer object, not .S> an int primitive. -- With best wishes, Alex Ott, MBA http://alexott.blogspot.com/ http://xtalk.msk.su/~ott/ http://alexott-ru.blogspot.com/ -- 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. 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
