diff --git a/src/jvm/clojure/lang/EdnReader.java b/src/jvm/clojure/lang/EdnReader.java
index 5cc77e85eb..494c0b4c5b 100644
--- a/src/jvm/clojure/lang/EdnReader.java
+++ b/src/jvm/clojure/lang/EdnReader.java
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ public class EdnReader{
 
 static IFn[] macros = new IFn[256];
 static IFn[] dispatchMacros = new IFn[256];
-static Pattern symbolPat = Pattern.compile("[:]?+([\\D&&[^/]].*/)?([\\D&&[^/]][^/]*)");
+static Pattern symbolPat = Pattern.compile("[:]?([\\D&&[^/]].*/)?([\\D&&[^/]][^/]*)");
 static Pattern intPat =
 		Pattern.compile(
 				"([-+]?)(?:(0)|([1-9][0-9]*)|0[xX]([0-9A-Fa-f]+)|0([0-7]+)|([1-9][0-9]?)[rR]([0-9A-Za-z]+)|0[0-9]+)(N)?");
diff --git a/src/jvm/clojure/lang/LispReader.java b/src/jvm/clojure/lang/LispReader.java
index 8b708a8f5f..9fb8cd72a7 100644
--- a/src/jvm/clojure/lang/LispReader.java
+++ b/src/jvm/clojure/lang/LispReader.java
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ public class LispReader{
 static IFn[] macros = new IFn[256];
 static IFn[] dispatchMacros = new IFn[256];
 //static Pattern symbolPat = Pattern.compile("[:]?([\\D&&[^:/]][^:/]*/)?[\\D&&[^:/]][^:/]*");
-static Pattern symbolPat = Pattern.compile("[:]?+([\\D&&[^/]].*/)?(/|[\\D&&[^/]][^/]*)");
+static Pattern symbolPat = Pattern.compile("[:]?([\\D&&[^/]].*/)?(/|[\\D&&[^/]][^/]*)");
 //static Pattern varPat = Pattern.compile("([\\D&&[^:\\.]][^:\\.]*):([\\D&&[^:\\.]][^:\\.]*)");
 //static Pattern intPat = Pattern.compile("[-+]?[0-9]+\\.?");
 static Pattern intPat =
diff --git a/test/clojure/test_clojure/control.clj b/test/clojure/test_clojure/control.clj
index 58d2e0fdec..3a7d4c3a59 100644
--- a/test/clojure/test_clojure/control.clj
+++ b/test/clojure/test_clojure/control.clj
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@
            :set #{3 2 1}
            :set (sorted-set 2 1 3))))
   (testing "test number equivalence"
-    (is (= :one (case 1N 1 :one :else))))
+    (is (= :1 (case 1N 1 :1 :else))))
   (testing "test warn when boxing/hashing expr for all-ints case"
     (should-print-err-message
       #"Performance warning, .*:\d+ - case has int tests, but tested expression is not primitive..*\r?\n"
@@ -348,10 +348,10 @@
     (should-not-reflect (Long. (case 1 1 1))) ; new Long(long)
     (should-not-reflect (Long. (case 1 1 "1")))) ; new Long(String)
   (testing "non-equivalence of chars and nums"
-    (are [result input] (= result (case input 97 :got97 :else))
+    (are [result input] (= result (case input 97 :97 :else))
       :else \a
       :else (char \a)
-      :got97 (int \a))
+      :97 (int \a))
     (are [result input] (= result (case input \a :a :else))
       :else 97
       :else 97N
diff --git a/test/clojure/test_clojure/reader.clj b/test/clojure/test_clojure/reader.clj
index 322321dd86..ff0c04ddbf 100644
--- a/test/clojure/test_clojure/reader.clj
+++ b/test/clojure/test_clojure/reader.clj
@@ -353,9 +353,7 @@
   (are [err msg form] (thrown-with-msg? err msg (read-string form))
        Exception #"Invalid token: foo:" "foo:"
        Exception #"Invalid token: :bar/" ":bar/"
-       Exception #"Invalid token: ::does.not/exist" "::does.not/exist"
-       Exception #"Invalid token: :5" ":5"))
-
+       Exception #"Invalid token: ::does.not/exist" "::does.not/exist"))
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