Two things: a) I don't think the "..." need to be there. I think that was
probably placeholder text from a tutorial? b) I'd suggest using defprotocol
(http://clojure.org/reference/protocols) protocols have a number of
benefits over interfaces.

Timothy

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Jeff Murphy <jcmur...@jeffmurphy.org>
wrote:

> Hi, I'm working with Clojure for the first time and am following a post to
> implement a binary tree. However, the code results in an error that I've
> been unable to figure out.
>
> Post is here  http://macromancy.com/2014/04/09/data-structures-clojure-
> trees.html
>
> Error is
>
>
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: nth
> not supported on this type: Symbol
>
>
>
> The piece of code (if I paste into REPL) that causes the error is:
>
>
> (definterface INode
>   ...
>   (insert [k v]))
>
>
>
> If anyone can help me out with a hint/explanation, that would be awesome!
>
>
> thanks!
> jeff
>
>
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