On Oct 3, 2008, at 2:00 PM, Stuart Halloway wrote: > Does this make sense? > > user=> (let [x Integer] (.getName x)) > "java.lang.Integer" > user=> (.getName Integer) > java.lang.NoSuchFieldException: getName
(.getName Integer) expands to (. Integer getName). "." is a special form that treats literal class names as its first argument in a special way. You can defeat that special treatment with identity: (. (identity Integer) getName) or the equivalent: (.getName (identity Integer)) --Steve --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---