On Sep 3, 7:51 pm, Rich Hickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sep 3, 5:14 pm, Chouser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Stephen C. Gilardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
>
> > > I saw some discussion of how to fix this on the IRC log but I can't get on
> > > at the moment.
> > > It looks like the current plan is to change "ns" to remove the sensitivity
> > > to "the namespace is already defined" and add "(:refer-clojure ...)" to
> > > the
> > > list of supported reference arguments.
>
> > Well, here's a patch for the behavior discussed on IRC. I'm posting
> > it only because it's complete and working, not in any attempt to
> > stifle further discussion. If we settle on any alternate solution,
> > this patch can just be ignored.
>
> I think the only problem is in the case of subsequent use of ns. I
> originally envisioned the 'main' .clj file doing an involved ns and
> subsequent files just doing (ns foo), as well as the use of ns at the
> repl to change namespaces. Now, if you did
>
> (ns foo (:refer-clojure ...) ...)
>
> any later (ns foo) is going to bring in all of clojure. I'd prefer it
> did nothing but change *ns*.
>
After sleeping on it, I think what we have been calling ns should be
called defns instead, and ns should just set *ns*. Thus there should
be only one defns for any particular namespace, and (ns foo) can be
used to set the namespace for a file and/or change the namespace at
the repl.
Thoughts?
Rich
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