Re: Why the need for an explicit new operator in Clojure?

[Gary Trakhman]

speculating, 'new' might be more convenient for code-gen, in the same way that (. obj func) is more convenient than (.func obj)

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Andrew McAuliffe <a...@mca.id.au> wrote:

Hi.

My understanding of Java (or jvm) is that you can not call a constructor without using a new operator. Why then (even with the suffix dot syntactic sugar notation) is the new operator required explicitly at all? What are the disadvantages to having it implicit?

Thanks in advance
amca

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[Meikel Brandmeyer (kotarak)]

Hi,

how do you distinguish between accessing the class itself and creating a new instance of it?

Meikel

[Timothy Baldridge]

>>how do you distinguish between accessing the class itself and creating a new >>instance of it?

(Foo. 42)

vs 

(instance? Foo 42)

Is that what you mean?

Timothy

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[Meikel Brandmeyer (kotarak)]

Yes. But I guess I misunderstood the OP rereading the original post again.

(Foo 42) vs. (instance? Foo 42) was my understanding (so no operator), but I guess it's more about (new Foo 42) vs. (Foo. 42).