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beginners 2026-10-20
Why do unqualified "." forms expand to the dot operator at macroexpansion time? what's the benefit?
Alex Miller (Clojure team) 2026-10-20T13:32:45.433419Z
. is the special form at the bottom
right, i'm just wondering why it doesn't go directly to the method or access, like with method values
Alex Miller (Clojure team) 2026-10-20T14:04:22.372599Z
method values are the exceptional case here and some early versions of it did go to . but .... it's complicated
Alex Miller (Clojure team) 2026-10-20T14:05:39.977939Z
we know things at different points of the analyzer and compiler and it ended up being easier to go directly in some of the qualified cases.
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