On Sunday, March 18, 2012 9:07:54 PM UTC-4, Brent Millare wrote:
>
>
> this form is still unreadable by default, but with tagged literals, allows 
> users to define custom reader behavior per class.
> #java.class.name [args*]
>
>

That syntax is already used for defrecords.

Clojure 1.4.0-beta2
user=> (defrecord Foo [a b]) 
user.Foo
user=> (read-string "#user.Foo[1 2]")
#user.Foo{:a 1, :b 2}
user=>

 

> Either that or is there a way to alter the printing behavior of java 
> objects locally, instead of globally as when defining a print-method for 
> that type?
>


Sure, just define your own print function that defaults to the standard 
Clojure print.

-S

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