Symbols (and keywords) may not contain the `:` character

[olavfosse]

Congrats on the 0.3.0 release! I got right to work porting my https://github.com/olavfosse/context to basilisp and encountered two bugs in the process.

1. Symbols containing a : are split into a symbol followed by a keyword. In basilisp (= ['a:b] ['a :b]), in JVM clojure (= ['a:b] [(symbol "a:b")]).
2. Basilisp crashes on expressions such as:

#?(:clj (java.util.LinkedList/.addFirst ml x)
       :lpy (.appendleft ml x))

It complains that

Symbols starting with '.' may not have a namespace

This should be allowed within :clj expressions at least.

Aside from that all seems to be working great. I did a search and replace from java.util.LinkedList to java_util_LinkedList, and after that all my tests passed in Basilisp!

Thanks!

With friendly regards

Olav

[olavfosse]

Fwiw I can just use the old syntax where the class is omitted: (.addFirst ml x)

Now all is working for me at least :^)

[chrisrink10]

It complains that

Symbols starting with '.' may not have a namespace

This should be allowed within :clj expressions at least.

This isn't specifically prohibited in Basilisp -- it's just a new feature in Clojure 1.12 I haven't gotten around to adding yet, so maybe this will be the impetus for doing so 😄

Thanks for the report and glad you were able to get this tool working with Basilisp!

[chrisrink10]

I've split out the qualified method references into #1109 so I'm going to use this ticket to track the bug with symbols (and apparently keywords) not allowing the : symbol in the name.