Just like the rest of the article, it's about readability. With `:refer` you don't know where a symbol came from when you encounter it in the middle of the code.
–S On Sunday, May 17, 2015 at 4:05:14 PM UTC+1, Akiva Schoen wrote: > > In Stuart Sierra's article here > (http://stuartsierra.com/2015/05/10/clojure-namespace-aliases), he > recommends to use :refer sparingly but doesn't explain why this is a > good idea. Only thing I could think of without putting too much effort > into it is that it makes it slightly more tedious when you want to use a > function from a namespace that hasn't been already explicitly referred. > > Are there no benefits other than possibly excluding function names that > might otherwise suffer a namespace clash (assuming their namespace isn't > being aliased already)? > > Thanks, > Akiva > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
