Does edn consider foo// to be a valid symbol?

[bpsm]

This is a follow-up to the recent commit clojure/clojure@88cad25.

Currently, bpsm/edn-java rejects the symbol foo//. I suspect now that this is not correct behavior.

commit 88cad2510243289d2bbe28cf8bd14007d9df5fc3
Author: Chris Gray <chrismgray@gmail.com>
Date:   2011-11-09 22:23:15 -0700

    Allow foo// meaning the function / in namespace foo

    Added regression tests

    Signed-off-by: Stuart Halloway <stu@thinkrelevance.com>

[richhickey]

Does the spec imply it doesn't?

[wagjo]

I would say that specs permits / to be used either alone or once only in the middle of the symbol. I don't see where the specs allows for / to be part of the name. Current specs reads

/ has special meaning in symbols. It can be used once only in the middle of a symbol to separate the prefix (often a namespace) from the name, e.g. my-namespace/foo. / by itself is a legal symbol, but otherwise neither the prefix nor the name part can be empty when the symbol contains /.