Clojure

• Type: Enhancement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Completed
• Affects Version/s: None
• Fix Version/s: None
• Component/s: None
• Labels:

  • patch,
  • test

There's been discussion previously about the complexity of the ns
macro. In particular the fact that :use causes all vars to be referred
by default is widely seen as unfortunate, and the distinction between
use and require is a source of conceptual overhead for people new to
the language.

We can't change the fact that :use refers everything by default
without breaking lots of existing code. But it would be possible to
enhance :require to support referring specified vars, leaving us free
to deprecate or otherwise discourage the use of :use.

Clojure-dev thread discussing this: http://groups.google.com/group/clojure-dev/browse_thread/thread/91b708ddb909affd

1. 

   0001-Allow-require-to-take-a-refer-option.patch

   25/Nov/11 2:52 PM

   3 kB

   Phil Hagelberg

• Assignee:

  Phil Hagelberg

  Reporter:

  Phil Hagelberg

• Created:

  17/Nov/11 4:08 PM

  Updated:

  17/Feb/12 2:18 PM

  Resolved:

  17/Feb/12 2:18 PM