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beginners 2026-02-02
Cheng Yu Chew 2026-02-02T17:02:36.654069Z
hi all, was experimenting with keywords and found the following interaction (see image). seems like i am able to keywordize special characters, use them during runtime, as well as prn-str them, but once i try to read the string back it will throw an invalid token error. I know the solution to this is pretty much just to check what im keywordizing, but is this an expected interaction that i can create supposedly illegal keywords during runtime?
lassemaatta 2026-02-02T17:06:07.943189Z
https://clojure.org/guides/faq#unreadable_keywords discusses this
Cheng Yu Chew 2026-02-02T17:08:12.030709Z
i see it, thanks!
exitsandman 2026-02-02T17:24:00.364579Z
maybe a hot take, but IMO having a reader tag for these like #keyword "foo bar" in the base language would be a net positive.
E: wording.
a long time ago rich used to keep a public list of possible things coming to clojure, and at one point something like #|foo bar| for symbols with arbitrary text was on the list as a maybe