Thanks but... Ugh. I guess I should have mentioned this is
Clojure/Javascript. Guessing clojure.reflect does not apply to JS.

Sorry for the trouble.

-kt


On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Gary Trakhman <gary.trakh...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Here's a complex example using clojure.reflect, the intent of which was to
> create a macro that emits type-hints for the actual constructors that are
> available, to resolve ambiguity when there are multiple constructors with
> the same number of arguments that differ in type.
>
> https://github.com/gtrak/interop/blob/master/src/interop/core.clj
>
> On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 1:25 PM Gary Trakhman <gary.trakh...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Yes, you'll have to use the reflection API to create a class dynamically.
>>
>> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/reflect/member/ctorInstance.html
>>
>> On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 1:24 PM hiskennyness <kentil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> qooxdoo lets us supply oft-used widget parameters to the constructor.
>>> For example, a button can specify its label and icon at new time. And this
>>> works fine from cljs:
>>>
>>>    (new qx.ui.mobile.form.Button "Go!") ;; label is the first arg
>>>
>>> But I am wrapping qooxdoo in something more concise and want to be able
>>> to code:
>>>
>>>    (qxia/make (::Button "Go!")
>>>       ..other init params to be "set"
>>>
>>> Unfortunately I cannot even
>>>
>>>    (new (qx-class qia-type)) ;; computed class
>>>
>>> Let alone
>>>
>>>    (apply new (qx-class qxia-type) make-inits)
>>>
>>> Not that I thought I would get away with it. :) I grok new is special.
>>>
>>> I can fall back on the qooxdoo API and use setLabel and setIcon, but I
>>> like learning so I thought I would ask if there were some way to:
>>>
>>>    1. compute a class (preferably by first constructing a name) and/or
>>>    2. do the moral equivalent of applying new to parameters
>>>
>>> -hk
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