This came up on Slack. A naïve implementation of "lispify" to turn vectors into lists used this code:
But when called like this:
It produces this error: java.lang.ClassCastException: clojure.lang.Keyword cannot be cast to java.util.Map$Entry
My initial reaction was to change the condition to (and (vector? e) (not (map-entry? e))) but that still failed, because while walking the hash map, the MapEntry [:a "b"] was turned into a PersistentVector.
At this point, we can switch to using prewalk and it works as expected:
Now we get the expected result:
This seems unintuitive at best and feels like a bug: postwalk should preserve the MapEntry type rather than converting it to a PersistentVector.
Cause: The problem seems to be this line https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/clj/clojure/walk.clj#L45:
Proposed: Change to:
This would preserve the type of the subelement.
Patch: clj-2031-w-test-v2.diff
Screened by: Alex Miller
Added patch with test
Instead of the calls to .key and .val you should just call key and val.
Good catch, thanks! Added patch clj-2031-w-test-v2.diff that uses key and val instead.
This keeps coming up on Slack – given there's a patch and this is prescreened, can it just get fixed as part of the next Clojure 1.9.0 Alpha/Beta build?
It's in a list for Rich to look at.