Comment made by: mars0i
I encountered the problem with using reader conditionals in a .clj file. I would have had no idea of how to fix the error meant except for Daniel Compton's blog post about it. I understand that it's not just a filename issue, and that there can be other sources of this error, but when it is a filename issue, it's very mysterious, and this seems like an easy mistake to make. A contributing context is that Clojurescript macros can be defined in a .clj file, so it can be natural to use that extension as a reminder about when the macros will be compiled.
I do think that something like "Reader conditionals not allowed ..." would be a lot easier to understand than "Conditional read not allowed". That would at least make it obvious that it's the reader conditional that's causing the problem. Once you know that this is what "conditional read" means, it's obvious, but "conditional read" is not a common phrase in the Clojure world, afaik, and I wondered why it didn't say "reader conditional" if that's what the message was about.
(An option would be to add a comment in the error string stating that the cause might be reader conditionals used outside of a .cljc file. Not sure if you want to go down that road of "might be"/"maybe" in error messages, since that kind of thing could get out of hand and lead to long error messages. However, this sort of thing has been done elsewhere, and it might be very helpful in this case; mistakenly using .clj with a reader conditional seems like something that would occur often.)
