Well, why write it in primitives when there is a perfectly good compiler from java to primitives? I dont quite understand why you think there would be benefit from manually writing everything with java bytecode. The JVM works with classes, thats how its designed, Clojure itself is just a java library.
On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 8:25:01 PM UTC+12, Divyansh Prakash wrote: > > Why are Clojure features defined in terms of Java classes, instead of as > bytecode primitives? > For eg: Cons is a class containing two objects: first and rest. > Is this only to achieve Java interoperability, or is there more to it? > -- 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/d/optout.
