Comments (6)
Mal (like Clojure) has nil
as a separate type/entity from the empty list.
Clojure treats ()
as the empty list, identical to '()
or (quote ())
. The last two work in Mal but simply ()
is treated as a function application and the function is not found (hence the exceptions/crashes).
Note that proper behaviour under bad input is not defined in Mal. For example, +
requires two numeric arguments (e.g., (+ 10 26)
), but it's undefined what will happen if you pass 0, 1 or 3 arguments to +
, or pass string arguments, for example.
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@igravious an unquoted empty list is a common enough issue that implementations shouldn't crash. So we'll fix any implementations that crash. In the general case though, @dubek is correct. It's perfectly acceptable for individual mal implementations to do rigorous error checking and useful error reporting, however, requiring that of all implementations is a non-goal. I know it's a little bit unusual, but the goal of mal is to support learning of both Lisp and other languages. Each implementation should run correct mal code the same way, but completeness and productization of the implementation is up to the implementor of each implementation.
I'll keep this issue open to fix empty list unrecoverable crashes.
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I started fixing this in #194 . The travis status there will show how many more implementations need fixing.
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Super. I am still playing with Mal in a serious way. I appreciate the time you have taken to respond.
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This should be resolved now.
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Super. Mal has been a brilliant learning tool for me.
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