deftype instances with mutable fields cannot be compiled
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When evaluating or compiling an implementer of clojure.lang.IType, the compiler tries to reflectively access its fields. This fails, when a field is marked mutable (hence private):
For classes that don't implement IType, no such problem exists.
This problem commonly occurs, when implementing a tagged literal for a deftype with cached hash.
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Alex Miller December 31, 2016 at 6:01 PM
Yeah, this is interesting. The compiler compiles a deftype into a call to the constructor with the current values of the fields, but mutable fields are not accessible. One alternative would be to provide some standard method to "read" the field set rather than relying on reflection. (Another would be changing the access modifiers for mutable fields but I think that's probably a non-starter.)
When evaluating or compiling an implementer of clojure.lang.IType, the compiler tries to reflectively access its fields. This fails, when a field is marked mutable (hence private):
For classes that don't implement IType, no such problem exists.
This problem commonly occurs, when implementing a tagged literal for a deftype with cached hash.