anyone interested in doing a patch for http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1766 ?

@alexmiller: Has any thought been given to whether 1.8 will drop support for JDK6?

If we're going to be controversial, do we drop JDK7 too? :)

It’s all useless to me once we drop JDK6, so sure

You need JDK6?

Yes

IntelliJ on OSX needs to run on JDK6 due to Swing/AWT bugs

They’re slated to be fixed in JDK9, so who knows if/when that will happen

JetBrains have more or less been forced to create a custom JDK to try to fix the bugs themselves, because the next version of OSX will not support Apple Java at all.

You can imagine how happy they are about that.

Either way, until everyone is off IntelliJ 14.1 and Yosemite, which is probably years, I need JDK6 support.

@alexmiller: depending how my schedule works, I could tackle that after CLJ-1453 (if 1766 is still available after my patch). I'm still working on tests (experimenting a bit of test.check, but not certain if it's worth the trouble)

@andrewhr: cool

@cfleming: I think its unlikely we will do anything re jdk 1.6 in Clojure 1.8

why are repeating colons not allowed in JVM Clojure symbols? Here's the commit from 2008 where Rich explicitly forbids them in LispReader.java: https://github.com/clojure/clojure/commit/005ea1b5f96c5bb762e155032a865e29ad71bcf3#diff-3a5dca122734225f3f60263876401aebR275 I ask because they are allowed in ClojureScript and the EDN spec on Github doesn't mention that they aren't allowed

dunno

leading :: is of course an auto-resolved keyword

might want to add this question to http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-1527

I will, thanks.