[armedbear-devel] Proposed patch for ticket #58 (inspection of Java objects)

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

Alessio Stalla writes:

> Sure, I think the abcl inspector does this too. However, with Lisp
> objects B is B itself; with Java objects, B is a representation of
> object B' in a certain state. If B' changes, B remains the same.

Where and why does that translation take place? I can see the need for
to wrap "native" Java objects into an LispObject so you can pass it to
Lisp functions, right? But why the deep wrapping?

> However, I understand now that I can change that easily - I can return
> the raw untranslated Java object - you'll see all fields have a value
> of #<JAVA-OBJECT foo.bar.Class>, even for numbers, arrays, strings and
> other simple types; but that will always reflect the current object,
> and you'll still be able to inspect it to see what it is, so I think
> it's a sensible thing to do.

Yes, it's what I'd expect.

  -T.