On Wednesday 17 December 2008 05:48, Rich Hickey wrote: > On Dec 16, 3:52 pm, Randall R Schulz <rsch...@sonic.net> wrote: > > ... > > > > Which takes us back to why the dot-suffix notation was not working > > in a macro but (new ...) was. ... > > Could you please post a short code example (reducing the problem as > far as possible), what it produces, and what you expected?
(ns rrs.io-helpers (:import (java.io FileWriter BufferedWriter))) (defmacro dcmfail [] `(BufferedWriter. (FileWriter. "stand-back"))) (defmacro ncmsucceed [] `(new BufferedWriter (new FileWriter "careful"))) (defn dcsucceed [] (BufferedWriter. (FileWriter. "watch-out"))) user=> (dcmfail) java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unable to resolve classname: BufferedWriter (repl-1:2) user=> (ncmsucceed) #<BufferedWriter java.io.bufferedwri...@a9255c> user=> (dcsucceed) #<BufferedWriter java.io.bufferedwri...@193f6e2> Following the test, "careful" and "watch-out" exist, "stand-back" does not. > Thanks, > > Rich Randall Schulz --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---