The docs say what characters are guaranteed future-safe for *you* to use in symbols, nothing more. I don't see what's so puzzling about this.
On Apr 4, 8:33 pm, Douglas Philips <d...@mac.com> wrote: > (This is a follow up to my query last week, where upon I didn't fully > connect these dots) > > According to: > http://clojure.org/reader > \< and \> are not in the valid list of sanctioned symbol characters. > > According to: > http://richhickey.github.com/clojure/clojure.core-api.html > The following are symbols using those characters: > -> ->> < <= = == > >= not= > :>> (used in condp) > > As per the discussion last week, all the characters not listed in the > reader page were free-game for potential reader-macro use. Is it > really still an open question that these comparison functions would be > changed in order to make those characters into macro characters? If > not, can the reader page be updated? > > Puzzled more than ever, > -Doug -- 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 To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
