Hi Nathan, I just had a quick look at the implementation: I think Clojure picks the first matching method if several are found.
https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/jvm/clojure/lang/Reflector.java#L70 It's probably worth testing this out though. Thanks, Ambrose On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:24 PM, N8Dawgrr <nathan.r.matth...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a question regarding ambiguity in reflective dynamic invocation. > > In Clojure you can dynamically invoke a method on a Java class like so: > > (. some-instance bar arg) > > where bar is a method name. > If the type inferencer can't ascertain the type of some-instance a runtime > reflective path is used to perform the method invocation. > Lets suppose some-instance is of type Foo which has two overloads of > method bar: > > bar(Apple arg) > > and > > bar(Orange arg) > > Now lets suppose Apple is an interface which extends Fruit and so is > Orange. > > Now lastly lets suppose we have a class MutantFruit which implements BOTH > Apple and Orange. > > My question is what method is invoked at runtime for the following code: > > (. some-instance bar mutant) > > where mutant is an instance of MutantFruit > > Regards, > > Nathan > > -- > -- > 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 > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
