Clojure .get and its difference to get

Question

What is .get in clojure and what is its difference with get? I know what get does but have never seen .get before.

Answer 1

That's how you invoke a .get method of an instance/class passed as a second parameter.

Eg:

(.get foo) ;; invokes an instance method of a foo object
(.get Bar) ;; invokes a static method of a Bar class

while

(get ...) ;; invokes a clojure get function

References:

• http://clojure.org/java_interop