Fail to evaluate 'comment' on "Getting Started REPL"

[mcgoat96]

Extension version:
v2.0.209

VS Code version:

Version: 1.59.1
Commit: 3866c3553be8b268c8a7f8c0482c0c0177aa8bfa
Date: 2021-08-19T11:53:52.479Z
Electron: 13.1.7
Chrome: 91.0.4472.124
Node.js: 14.16.0
V8: 9.1.269.36-electron.0
OS: Darwin x64 19.6.0

Evaluating (Option+Enter) on comment symbol (macro) itself throws

(comment "World")
|-------| <=== evaluating this span fails with trace below

; Syntax error compiling at (/var/folders/kl/<some temp path>/T/betterthantomorrow.calva/7c5x6/hello_repl.clj:0:0).
; Can't take value of a macro: #'clojure.core/comment

[PEZ]

Hello, happy to know you are using the Getting Started REPL!

This is actually very expected behaviour. Calva sends to the REPL whatever you ask Calva to send. And evaluating comment gives that error in the Clojure Reader. It is somewhat pointed at later on in the Clojure guide:

https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/dram/blob/f4266fddfcf25849e96465917c34abea078dfef3/drams/calva_getting_started/welcome_to_clojure.clj#L123

But as a beginner you don't know this of course so the guide should probably try to establish this earlier. I have filed an issue on the Dram repository, where the guides are authored: BetterThanTomorrow/dram#12

Thanks for reporting!

[mcgoat96]

Hi, appreciate the speedy response and all the effort you've put into Calva!
I guess that the Dram issue will ultimately be used to resolving this one so I'm leaving it as-is instead of closing.