On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Seth Burleigh <s...@tewebs.com> wrote:

>  Ah. So class returns the class of the instance, and does not find the
> class with the name given.
>
Yes.

> So , if I wanted to get the class of a ExecutionEvent, I would
>
> Have to go (Class/forName "org.eclipse.core.commands.ExecutionEvent")?
>
Nope, you would just have to type "ExecutionEvent", without quotes. Symbols
that are class names are evaluated directly as instances of Class for the
class they name.

user=> (import 'java.util.HashMap)
java.util.HashMap
user=> (= HashMap (Class/forName "java.util.HashMap"))
true

Hope that helps,

- J.

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