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Would #<...> be valid edn? #41

Closed trevorbernard closed 10 years ago

trevorbernard commented 11 years ago

Greater than and less than aren't in the symbols section and I would like some clarification. Can you have greater than and less than in tags in edn?

bjeanes commented 11 years ago

My guess would be that, no it would not be valid. Both < and > are valid symbols in of themselves (e.g. in Clojure, (< 2 3) ;=> true so they probably could not be used unambiguously as delimiters a la (, ), {, }

richhickey commented 10 years ago

Nothing in the spec implies that it would afaict.