(assoc-in {} [] 1) ;=> {nil 1}
This should probably throw an exception.
CLJ-373 has a patch ((link: http://dev.clojure.org/jira/secure/attachment/12897/CLJ-373-nested-ops.patch text: CLJ-373-nested-ops.patch)) which fixes this (by throwing an exception on empty key paths), the related broken behavior of update-in, and documents empty key path behavior in get-in et al. I can pull just the assoc-in stuff out of that into a separate patch, but I am really hoping that all the issues in the patch addresses are resolved at once, I.e.:
(get-in {} [] :notfound) ;=> {} ; ok
(get-in {nil 1} [] :notfound) ;=> {nil 1} ; ok
(assoc-in {} [] 1) ;=> {nil 1} ; wat?
(assoc-in {nil 0} [] 1) ;=> {nil 1} ; wat?
(update-in {} [] identity) ;=> {nil nil} ; wat?
(update-in {nil 0} [] inc) ;=> {nil 1} ; wat?
