Ah. Interesting. (btw the "exported" in you second line certainly should be "imported")
So it interprets huhu. as full qualified class name and leaves it alone. Thank you for the explanation. Regards, alux On 19 Mrz., 09:38, Meikel Brandmeyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mar 19, 9:16 am, alux <[email protected]> wrote: > > > is this a bug or a feature? (And how could I know.) > > > spels=> (macroexpand `(huhu huhu.)) > > (spels/huhu huhu.) > > > If the symbol ends with a dot, it doesnt get resolved with name space. > > I suspect thats because it will get special interpretation as Java > > constructor. But what kind of magic is at work here? > > This is exactly the case. The magic is `. It either expands the > classname to the full qualified version, if the class is exported. Or > it leaves it alone otherwise. > > The reason is, that you can have a class frobnicator.Foo imported in > the namespace where you define your macro. However the user may use > your macro in a namespace which imports yoyodyne.Foo. If the Foo. in > your macro was left alone, it would now refer to yoyodyne.Foo instead > of the intended frobnicator.Foo. > > If the class is not imported it must be by definition fully qualified. > And hence ` leaves the symbol with trailing . alone. > > Note that something similar happens to the .method notation. > > Sincerely > Meikel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
