Rationale
I'm writing a type checker for Clojure code that utilizes a modified version ClojureScript analyzer.
I have made some changes to the analyzer to analyze Clojure code, instead of ClojureScript.
These changes could form the basis of a generalized analyze library to be called a la carte.
Challenges
Analyzer doesn't understand macro definitions (defmacro's)
- Solution: `require` namespace before analysis
- assuming a macro is only defined once
- compiler should pick up any uses of the macro before definition, so don't need to know where in the namespace macro is defined
Dynamic loading and aliasing
- ClojureScript has no compiler at runtime, so all dependencies and aliases are known at compile time
- Clojure has `refer`, `require`, `import`, `alias`
- Can be called dynamically at runtime
- Impossible to compute all dependencies at compile
- Seems like a losing battle
- Could we analyze clojure.core? Uses dynamic `load`, `require`
- clojure.main?
- Seems like a losing battle
- Impossible to compute all dependencies at compile
- Can be called dynamically at runtime
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