Hey,

You have too many colons:

user=> (read-string ":l/test")
:l/test


Dave



On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Casper Clausen <casp...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am reading a bunch of clojure files using the build-in reader (or
> tools.reader, it has the same problem) and I am running into a problem
> regarding namespaced keywords (is that the right term?) such as ::l/test.
>
> => (read-string "::l/test")
> RuntimeException Invalid token: ::l/test
>  clojure.lang.Util.runtimeException (Util.java:219)
>
> It seems that the reader requires the namespace alias 'l' to exist. This
> is a shame because in most (all?) other respects the reader is able to just
> read in the symbols even if their namespace is not loaded. So in order for
> me to read a file with a namespaced keyword I need to eval at least the ns
> form of the file, which then requires me to eval the ns forms of its
> dependencies (and so on). My code is basically building on the excellent
> codeq analyzer (
> https://github.com/Datomic/codeq/blob/master/src/datomic/codeq/analyzers/clj.clj),
> so I am guessing this would have the same problem when running into a
> similar namespaced keyword.
>
> So my question is how do I best get around this?
>
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