On Tuesday, March 21, 2017 at 12:35:05 PM UTC-4, John Gabriele wrote:
>
> On Monday, March 20, 2017 at 4:59:33 PM UTC-4, Colin Fleming wrote:
>>
>> Object doesn't have a getName() method.
>>
>> This doc is confusing - as Phill comments above, this is calling the
>> getName() method on an instance of Class. In Clojure, a bare classname
>> (String, ArrayList or whatever) resolves to the class itself if it has been
>> imported (i.e. what would be String.class in Java). The doc is confusing
>> because (.instanceMember Classname args*) is really just a special case
>> of (.instanceMember instance args*), where "instance" refers to an instance
>> of a Class object. I'm not sure why that doc makes that distinction, it
>> doesn't seem useful to me.
>>
>
> Oh. I see. `SomeClass` is an instance of java.lang.Class.
>
> user=> (. (class String) getName)
> "java.lang.Class"
>
>
Erf. Sorry. I don't think I understand that after all, and as well may have
confused java.lang.String and java.lang.Class in my above reply.
I also notice now that:
user=> (class String)
java.lang.Class
but
user=> (. java.lang.Class getName)
CompilerException java.lang.NoSuchFieldException: getName,
compiling:(/tmp/form-init2724986764275224936.clj:1:1)
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