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Octal escape sequence decoding in strings does not stop at non-octal digit
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Support characters beyond basic multilingual plane
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clojure.edn/read invoke user-supplied reader functions when tagged literal is to be discarded by discard macro
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Inconsistent errors in ratio parsing with either `clojure.edn/read` or `clojure.core/read`
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Do you use arity 3 or higher comparisons such as = < <= > >= == in performance sensitive code?
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.pow bigdec vs bigint
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Associative destructuring with if-let
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clojure.edn parser will not parse complete file in some cases
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Eugene Pakhomov
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Consider postponing setting the default values of destructured map keys that might rely on other keys
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Add digit separators support to number literals.
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Nov 1, 2024
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