On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Liam <liam.ga...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In the clojure source, on the JVM side, under "lang/LispReader.java"
> line 873, link below.
>
> What is this CtorReader? Why isn't it referenced anywhere in the code
> file, i.e. no reader macro?
>
> Does someone know?
I think it's vestigial code, meant to support a reader syntax
demonstrated in the comments:
// #<class classname>
// #<classname args*>
// #<classname/staticMethod args*>
As far as I can tell, no version was ever checked in that
actually used that code. You can see the commit where it was
first introduced, but even there it appears to have already been
superceded:
git show 2faa08e4
The current format for similar effect is handled by EvalReader.
For example:
#=(java.lang.Integer. "5")
This is (intentionally, I think) undocumented. It's used
internally as part of AOT compilation, produced by prn and
friends when *print-dup* is true, and read by the regular reader.
The CtorReader class itself is as you noted apparently unused.
Presumably it will fade away as part of Clojure-in-Clojure.
--Chouser
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