On Mar 24, 8:48 pm, ninix wrote:
> Is there any way to get a "dynamic" member-symbol for use in the (.)
> special form?
Nope. Your options are 1) use the Java reflection API; or 2) use
Clojure's internal reflection methods.
I recommend (1), because that's a well-defined API. It wouldn't be
too
Hi,
2009/3/25 ninix
>
> Thanks.
>
> 1) The returned exception is misleading. For example, in the following
> (contrived) case:
> user=> (. obj (toString ""))
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No matching method found: toString
> for class java.lang.Object
> Since the member-symbol is not eva
Thanks.
1) The returned exception is misleading. For example, in the following
(contrived) case:
user=> (. obj (toString ""))
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No matching method found: toString
for class java.lang.Object
Since the member-symbol is not evaluated, shouldn't the exception be
(at
Hello,
No, it's not possible, dot (.) is a special form and disallows this.
Search this mailing list for the subject "Help with the dot operator special
form" for a similar discussion on the ways to achieve more dynamic (runtime)
method resolution.
HTH,
--
Laurent
2009/3/25 ninix
>
> Hi,
>
Hi,
Is there any way to get a "dynamic" member-symbol for use in the (.)
special form?
For example, I get the following exception:
user=> (def obj (Object.))
#'user/obj
user=> (. obj (symbol "f"))
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No matching method found: symbol
for class java.lang.Object
I
