Basic Method invocation Question

[AlexGoico]

In Clojure, method invocation can be as follows: (. instance-expr method-symbol args*)

In Hy, I see from docs I can invoke as:

(.method-symbol instance-expr args*)

or

(instance-expr.method-symbol args*)

but for whatever reason not:

(. instance-expr method-symbol args*)

I must instead return the method reference then add args*

((. instance-expr method-symbol) args*)

Am I missing something or is this something intentional of the language design? I don't see much clarity on https://hylang.org/hy/doc/v1.0.0/tutorial#functions-classes-and-modules.

Tested this using loguru as follows in hy 1.0.0 interpreter:

=> (import loguru [logger])
=> (. logger info "hi")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "stdin-931ab003c23f8ae59707682229501bee380215b8", line 1
    (. logger info "hi")
                   ^
hy.errors.HySyntaxError: parse error for pattern macro '.': got unexpected token: hy.models.String('hi'), expected: end of macro call

[Kodiologist]

is this something intentional of the language design?

It is, yes. The reason that (. a b c) doesn't compile to b.a(c) is that it compiles to something else, namely a.b.c. See http://hylang.org/hy/doc/v1.0.0/api#%2E.

[AlexGoico]

Appreciate the answer to such a basic question. Thanks.