On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Alessio Stalla <alessiosta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 Feb, 19:51, Ken Wesson <kwess...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Java has a lack of this top-down processing,
>
> That's not true, what do you mean?
>
> class Foo {
> void bar() { baz(); }
> void baz() {}
> }
>
> compiles fine, as well as
>
> class Foo {
> void bar() { new Baz(); }
> }
>
> class Baz {}
That's *exactly* what I mean. Java allows forward references.
>> and it sometimes causes
>> problems because the order in which static initializers will execute
>> is not generally predictable.
>
> Static initializers are executed at runtime, so this has nothing to do
> with how the compiler processes declarations.
Clojure source files are more like giant static initializers than like
compile-time Java declarations. They actively do things -- usually,
construct things and intern symbols in namespaces to refer to them
(your defs and defns). In particular, they execute at run-time.
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