So there's some sort of "boxing" going on here where the nil produced
as the values of s-expressions are actually Objects which are nulls,
while literal nils are actually nulls?
Such as in java where:
Object t = null;
Thread r = new Thread((String) t);
is valid but
Thread r = new Thread(null);
is not ?
Isn't this breaking referential transparency that (Thread. ((fn [])))
and (Thread. nil) are not the same (you can't replace a function call
with it's value in this case)? This is not the behaviour I would
expect at all, as it would make any clojure function with a nil in
it's range no longer pure.
--Robert McIntyre
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 3:53 AM, Alex Osborne <a...@meshy.org> wrote:
> Robert McIntyre <r...@mit.edu> writes:
>
>> seems there's no type hint required:
>>
>> (def t nil)
>> (Thread. t)
>>
>> also works...
>>
>> How are you able to determine that it's calling the String constructor?
>>
>> --Robert McIntyre
>
> Ah, no I'm wrong. I was jumping to conclusions. It's the Runnable
> one:
>
> (let [^String o nil] (Thread. o)) ; error
>
> (let [^Runnable o nil] (Thread. o)) ; no error
>
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