Clojurians Log v2
chlorine-clover
Hey guys, not sure if this is Atom or Chlorine specific or a general, I'm-doing-things-incorrectly kind of thing - I've just been having some issues with copying and pasting code from the Getting Clojure epub book I've been learning from - when I copied this bit of code: (ns blottsbooks.core (:require blottsbooks.pricing) (:gen-class)) into my core.clj file and submitted it for evaluation I got back a clojure.lang.ExceptionInfo error "Call to clojure.core/ns did not conform to spec." and when I copied and pasted (def discount-rate 0.15) and submitted that I got back a could not resolve symbol def in this context error
Do you need [] around blottsbooks.pricing? Like (ns blottsbooks.core (:require [blottsbooks.pricing]) (:gen-class))
No I don't need it wrapped in a vector as when I type it out manually the code works fine - it is just when I copy-paste from the book that it throws the error - so I think maybe it is a hidden character thing which Mauricio seems to think too so I will check that out, thanks for the help though, yeah it was a little confusing for me the requires as one needs to be a keyword and have a single quote for the argument and the other not and sometimes the args are supplied in vectors for it as you say
Is there some issue where hidden characters are being copied over from the book text that I'm not seeing? Because when I type these out manually they evaluate and run fine with the proper expected results.
Seems like a hidden character thing. Atom have an option to show invisible characters, maybe toggle it and see if there's something extra. I remember having problems with it while copy-pasting things from PDF