Re: Calling object members with symbols

Thanks for the answers! On Monday, October 19, 2015 at 3:15:16 AM UTC+2, dennis wrote: > > In such case you have to use `eval`, another post > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/clojure/YJNRnGXLr2I > > 2015-10-19 9:10 GMT+08:00 James Reeves >: > >> On 18 October

Re: Calling object members with symbols

In such case you have to use `eval`, another post https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/clojure/YJNRnGXLr2I 2015-10-19 9:10 GMT+08:00 James Reeves : > On 18 October 2015 at 23:54, Timur wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Is there anyway to call an object

Calling object members with symbols

Hi all, Is there anyway to call an object member using its symbol? For instance we have an object o, we get the symbol of a method, e.g., toString, of our object o using clojure.reflect/reflect and and I want to execute this method on this object through the symbol. For instance *(. obj

Re: Calling object members with symbols

Nope, still won't work. (let [s 'toString] (invoke 1 s)) java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No matching field found: s for class java.lang.Long On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 5:51 PM dennis zhuang wrote: > You may have to use macro: > > user=> (defmacro invoke [obj sym] `(.

Re: Calling object members with symbols

You may have to use macro: user=> (defmacro invoke [obj sym] `(. ~obj ~sym)) #'user/invoke user=> (invoke 1 toString) "1" 2015-10-19 6:54 GMT+08:00 Timur : > Hi all, > > Is there anyway to call an object member using its symbol? > > For instance we have an object o, we get

Re: Calling object members with symbols

On 18 October 2015 at 23:54, Timur wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there anyway to call an object member using its symbol? > > For instance we have an object o, we get the symbol of a method, e.g., > toString, of our object o using clojure.reflect/reflect and and I want to >