Re: [j-devel] JAVA-OBJECT-P

[Peter G. <pe...@ar...>]

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 at 08:13:09 +0100, Andr=E1s_Simon wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Doug McNaught wrote:
>
> > I think we need a JAVA-OBJECT-P primitive, so user code can tell whet=
her
> > something is a wrapped Java object (aka org.armedbear.lisp.JavaObject=
).
> > This would be mainly used by Lisp code that is working extensively
> > with objects created by existing Java librarie.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I think this has to be done at the Java level--doing
> > (jinstance-of-p 'foo "java.lang.Object") throws an exception.
> >
> > Peter, unless you object strongly or can think of a way of doing it
> > from Lisp, I'll see about coding it up in the next day or two.
> > Obviously it would go in the JAVA package.
> >
>
> Perhaps the proper way to do it would be to have a built-in class/type
> JAVA-OBJECT, so that class-of/type-of/typep etc. did the right thing.

I have no objection at all to JAVA-OBJECT-P, and I like the idea of a
built-in class.

-Peter