Programming Style

[Shmurk]

Hi, I'm new to Clojure and I love it so far. It's the first Lisp that
I can use professionally and it's great.

I have one questions about the "programming style" used in the Clojure
standard library. For example, in the file core.clj, I see:

(. *out* (flush))

Why is it written like this? Could we write it like this instead:

(. *out* flush)

or the more concise:

(.flush *out*)

Is it more efficient internally?

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Re: Programming Style

[Shmurk]

On Jan 5, 1:00 pm, Meikel Brandmeyer  wrote:
> While these new forms are
> available, what would be the use of rewritten everything?

I'm not trying to rewrite anything, I'm just so thrilled about this
new language that I was (for once in my life) looking at the source
trying to study what was happening under the hood.

> The last form is translated to the second anyway.
>
> 1:1 user=> (macroexpand-1 '(.foo bar))
> (. bar foo)

That's where I failed, I didn't knew that Java method calls were
expanded like macros, thank you very much for the answer!
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