Those are convincing arguments/examples that spaces should be allowed in
keywords.
Your solution to enhance "pr":
(pr-str k) ; as in your example
"(keyword "jaja nee")"
should work.
Btw., symbols seem to have the exact same issue:
user=> (def s (symbol "with space"))
#'user/s
user=> s
with space
user=> (pr-str s)
"with space"
user=> (read-string (pr-str s))
with
user=>
Is this a bug?
-FrankS.
On Mar 6, 2012, at 11:56 AM, Timothy Baldridge wrote:
>> I don't think you're supposed to use spaces in keywords.
>
>
> Using spaces in keywords is completely valid, as is using spaces in
> symbols. You just have to be aware that there may be times when you
> can't represent them in a literal form. pr-str could be extended to do
> this though:
>
> (pr-str :foo)
> ":foo"
>
> (pr-str k) ; as in your example
> "(keyword "jaja nee")"
>
> There are many times when you may actually want to have spaces as
> keywords. Consider the following json:
>
> {"first name" : "John"
> "last name" : "Doe"
> "age" : 42}
>
> If we convert this json to clojure, it would be nice to be able to do:
>
> user=> (:age data)
> 42
>
> And we can still do this:
>
> user=> ((keyword "first name") data)
> "John"
>
> Why restrict the user needlessly?
>
>
> Timothy
>
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