Andy Fingerhut writes:

> Examples of dangerous side effects that can occur with
> clojure.core/read and read-string in Clojure 1.4 and earlier:
>
> ;; This causes precious-file.txt to be created if it doesn't
> ;; exist, or if it does exist, its contents will be erased (given
> ;; appropriate JVM sandboxing permissions, and underlying OS file
> ;; permissions).
> (read-string-unsafely "#java.io.FileWriter[\"precious-file.txt\"]")

Thanks for clarifying. That is quite unfortunate. A separate library
will help for backwards-compatibility though.

-Phil

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