Re: Programming Style

2009-01-05 Thread Meikel Brandmeyer
Hi, Am 05.01.2009 um 14:02 schrieb Shmurk: That's where I failed, I didn't knew that Java method calls were expanded like macros, thank you very much for the answer! Well. All the interop with Java works via the . and new special forms. The Classname. and .methodName shortcuts are just for co

Re: Programming Style

2009-01-05 Thread Shmurk
On Jan 5, 1:00 pm, Meikel Brandmeyer wrote: > While these new forms are > available, what would be the use of rewritten everything? I'm not trying to rewrite anything, I'm just so thrilled about this new language that I was (for once in my life) looking at the source trying to study what was hap

Re: Programming Style

2009-01-05 Thread Meikel Brandmeyer
Hi, Am 05.01.2009 um 10:30 schrieb Shmurk: I have one questions about the "programming style" used in the Clojure standard library. For example, in the file core.clj, I see: (. *out* (flush)) This is the oldest form. Why is it written like this? Could we write it like this instead: (. *ou