Sorry, my bad. I can see the same behavior in previous Clojure versions 
too. I discovered this in the middle of moving to 1.9.0-RC1 in one of 
the projects and somehow got it all mixed up.


Shantanu

On Tuesday, 14 November 2017 11:36:30 UTC+5:30, Andy Fingerhut wrote:
>
> I see the same behavior in Clojure 1.7.0 and 1.8.0 as you see in 1.9.0-RC1.
>
> Andy
>
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 9:48 PM, Shantanu Kumar <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, I did not specify the problem completely earlier. The coercion 
>> fails only when *uncheked-math* is set to truthy in 1.9.0-RC1.
>>
>> user=> (byte \a)
>> 97
>> user=> (set! *unchecked-math* true)  ; or :warn-on-boxed
>> true
>> user=> (byte \a)
>>
>> ClassCastException java.lang.Character cannot be cast to 
>> java.lang.Number  clojure.lang.RT.uncheckedByteCast (RT.java:1376)
>>
>>
>> Shantanu
>>
>> On Tuesday, 14 November 2017 01:27:36 UTC+5:30, Alex Miller wrote:
>>>
>>> Works for me in 1.9.0-RC1. I don't know of anything that changed in this 
>>> area.
>>>
>>> Clojure 1.9.0-RC1
>>> user=> (byte \a)
>>> 97
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 1:09 PM, Shantanu Kumar <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The coercion (byte \a) works fine in Clojure 1.8, but it fails with 
>>>> `ClassCastException java.lang.Character cannot be cast to 
>>>> java.lang.Number` 
>>>> in 1.9.0-RC1. Is this by design?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Shantanu
>>>>
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