Re: autos2j environment

On 6/16/06, Matthias Radestock <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
> One possible solution is to automatically bind all symbols with a
> certain prefix to the appropriate s2j java class, method or field. To
> the programmer this feels like having a toplevel environment in which
> all java entities are pre-defined. One would be able to write, for
> example
>
> (install-autos2j 'j%)
[...]
> Comments? Suggestions?
[...]

I think this is a very nifty approach. A few questions arise:

1. Would the effect of install-autos2j be limited to the some lexical
scope? It would be nice to be able to keep the chosen prefixes local
to a module, for instance.

2. Is there any way that something similar could be done with Java
package names? As in:

(import-java-package |java.lang| jl%)

(let ((buf (java-new <jl%string-buffer>)))
 ...

3. This is very minor, but what do you think of a name such as
(import-autos2j) or the like, since we are, in a sense, importing a
set of symbols from the outside?
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Alessandro