On Dec 16, 2:32 pm, Stuart Halloway <stuart.hallo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Randall,
>
> The syntactic sugar forms are reader behavior, and occur too soon: at
> read time, not macro expansion time.
>
Actually, the dot sugar is not reader magic, but macroexpansion, as
documented here:
http://clojure.org/java_interop
(read-string "(java.util.ArrayList.)")
-> (java.util.ArrayList.) ;a list with one symbol
(macroexpand (read-string "(java.util.ArrayList.)"))
-> (new java.util.ArrayList)
(eval (read-string "(java.util.ArrayList.)"))
-> #=(java.util.ArrayList. [])
> Macros need to expand to real forms, not reader shortcuts.
>
That's generally true, but does not apply here, because Classname. is
a regular symbol reader-wise.
Rich
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