[armedbear-devel] [PATCH] jcall(there are multiple matchingmethods)

[Alan Ruttenberg]

This would be incompatible with other common lisps, and make porting
to other java enabled lisps in the future a pain. My gut says don't
mess with the define reading behavior.

-Alan

On Tuesday, December 22, 2009, Tobias C. Rittweiler <tcr at freebits.de> wrote:
> Alessio Stalla writes:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Alessio Stalla wrote:
>>
>> Now jcall can be used with less verbose syntax, for example:
>> (jcall "toString" 4) ==> "4"
>> (jcall "compareTo" 4 5) ==> -1
>>
>> it would be nice to add (#"methodName" args) a la JSS for even shorter syntax.
>
> FWIW, I do not like the special read syntax. I think, the real solution
> that ABCL should strive for is
>
>   - to implement per-package symbol case sensitivity a la Clisp
>
>     See  http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/package-case.html
>
>   - introduce a package JAVA (with nickname J) where symbols are
>     interned in while preserving case.
>
> Ultimatively, ABCL should strive for making
>
>   (funcall j:compareTo 4 5)  [read in as (FUNCALL J:|compareTo| 4 5)]
>
> work.
>
> Sounds like a nice project for the free time between the years.
>
> Any takers?
>
>   -T.
>
>
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