Having looked at Keyword.java, I'll amend my example:
import clojure.lang.Keyword;
x map.get(new Keyword("myns","foo"));
The above may well reveal that I remember very little Java from
previous lives so feel free to correct any errors.
-Aaron.
On Oct 13, 9:33 am, Aaron Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All,
>
> I would think that changing or wrapping the map would create confusion
> and additional overhead. In my mind the most natural interaction would
> be to provide a way for Java code to create references to keywords:
>
> x = map.get(clojure.keyword("foo")); // ... or something along
> these lines
>
> I'll take a look at the Clojure code but I expect that this would be
> easy to do. Any methods that try to mash strings and keywords into the
> same space seems like it would be mostly application specific as it
> would need to resolve cases where identically named keywords and
> strings exist. The only safe cases would be when a map exclusively
> contains strings or keywords.
>
> Naturally, wouldn't want to demand that you don't want to do what, in
> fact, you want to do. I think Clojure would best cater to the safe,
> predictable cases and leave the hairy cases up to individual
> developers.
>
> -Aaron
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