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Re:Clojure: 1, Common Lisp: 0 by mike_organon on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @03:31PM (#442228)
That's just the syntax failing to support such a nice way of accessing those objects. Packages, classes, and methods are objects.

Of course, primitives are not objects, but autoboxing helps.

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Re:Clojure: 1, Common Lisp: 0 by weavejester on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @08:19AM (#443165)
Sure, they're represented as objects in the JVM, and you can access this via refection; but they're not treated as objects in Java's syntax. I'd argue that OOP is a property of a language's syntax, rather than how it is internally represented.
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