[parenscript-devel] How to call constructor?

[Vladimir Sedach]

Yes, it really should, but I want to encourage people to change their
readtables to invert.

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Miron Brezuleanu <mbrezu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Vladimir Sedach <vsedach at gmail.com> wrote:
>> (ps (new (Person age shoe-size))) outputs new Person(age, shoeSize)
>>
>> This brings up a good point about the syntax of 'new'. Maybe the above
>> is not a good way?
>>
>> In any case, I've written up a description of how 'new' works now in
>> the reference manual
>> (http://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/reference.html).
>
> Thanks for the information! The existing syntax is OK by me, the only
> bug was the lack of documentation, which is now fixed. I think
> changing the syntax would break a lot of code and give people trouble
> without good reason.
>
> One nitpick: with READTABLE-CASE set to :UPCASE the example in the
> manual should read '(new (-person age shoe-size))' - or am I missing
> something else?
>
> Thank you again,
>
> --
> Miron Brezuleanu
>
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