Sorry, I think my reply got lost... Inside deftype methods the symbol "Bar" is the name of the class. You can use the constructor (Bar. (inc i)) instead. Again, note the "." after Bar.
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hin...@fastmail.net> wrote: > On 01.01.2010, at 23:56, Hugo Duncan wrote: > >>> I want to create a new instance of a deftype from inside one of its >>> methods. >> >> I ended-up using extend-type for this case. > > That's probably the cleanest solution, but you lose the performance > benefit of defining methods right in the type definition. > > After looking at the deftype code, I came up with the following > solution: > > (defprotocol Foo > (foo [x])) > > (deftype Bar > [i] > Foo > (foo [] (new Bar (inc i)))) > > (foo (Bar 0)) > > > Its drawback is relying on an undocumented feature: the value of Foo > inside the methods is the class Foo being defined. > > Konrad. > > -- > 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 -- 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
