Sean, thanks. -- Chouser. Thank you very much. Vestigial, I suppose means: surpassed or left behind as you explained below. Thanks for your deep insights.
On Dec 27, 8:21 pm, Chouser <chou...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 superceded: 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 > -- > -- I funded Clojure 2010, did you? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
