Guys, I have a hybrid Java/Clojure project.
The Java side contains a number of interfaces/classes that make use of generics. Implementing the interfaces Clojure-side is no problem - I just forget about type and get on with it :-) I am slowly migrating more and more code into Clojure and there will come a point when I'd like to take some of these interfaces over... So now to my confusion: My understanding is that generics are a compile-time, NOT a run-time abstraction. This implies that metadata about generics would not be present at runtime and therefore [probably] not in bytecode ? So, I would expect to be able to replace my interfaces with defprotocols - however, I would expect this to confuse Java implementations of these interfaces, since they somehow have access to their interfaces generics-oriented metadata... So maybe I have answered my question - I guess that there must actually be some generics metadata present in the bytecode to allow inter-jar generics compilation to work, but then at runtime this would be ignored [probably]. So this leads me to conclude that I would 1. have to port my classes that implement generic interfaces to Clojure before the interfaces themselves. 2. give up the ability to write further generic implementations of these interfaces in Java :-( can anyone who really knows what the situation is confirm my suspicions ? thanks for your time, Jules -- 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
