clojure.pprint uses the old-style metadata.

Question

I was looking through the implementation of clojure.pprint.* and found that it still uses the old-style metadata to mark vars as private - ^{:private true} instead of ^:private.

I have migrated the metadata to the new style in the attached trivial patch, which can be used in case this is deemed to be an issue.

FWIW, there are some other namespaces which use the old-style metadata as well; I am willing to fix those as well.

Answer 1

Comment made by: jafingerhut

clj-842-update-clojure.pprint-metadata-v2.txt dated Nov 14 2012 is identical to Baishampayan Ghose's 0001-Migrate-the-metadata-in-clojure.pprint.-to-the-new-s.patch dated Sep 26, 2011, except it applies cleanly to latest master.

Answer 2

Comment made by: stu

Recategorizing as enhancement since the old form continues to be legal.

Answer 3

Reference: https://clojure.atlassian.net/browse/CLJ-842 (reported by alex+import)