Hi, I attached a patch, which addresses some issues I have with gen-class.
- gen-class does load a specifically named file instead of requiring a namespace. This leads to an artificial splitting of the sources. Furthermore setup of support has to be repeated over and over again. (Once per class in that namespace) - gen-class handles _ differently than the library functions. So the namespace for foo_bar.Baz must be called foo_bar instead of foo-bar. The patch addresses these issues. So a usage of gen-class, with applied patch might look like this: In in/the/classpath/foo_bar/foo_bar.clj: (clojure/ns foo-bar) (defn Baz-toString [this] "A Baz!") The gen-class call unchanged: (gen-and-save-class "in/the/classpath" 'foo_bar.Baz) Usage: user=> (def b (new foo_bar.Baz)) #=(var user/b) user=> (.toString b) "A Baz!" My knowledge about generating JVM bytecode is limited to guessing the correct looking enchantments. Although not really tested, it seems to work. I think this would make gen-class look a lot less kludgy, since now it adheres to the usual conventions: - for lisp code, _ for Java code and the namespace as responsible for setting up things. The downside: this would be an incompatible change. Any thoughs or comments? Sincerely Meikel
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