One could argue that wildcard imports in Java (import package.*) are evil, pollute your namespaces, create potential naming conflicts, etc. One would probably be correct.
One could also argue that having to manually type a list of dozens of classnames is pretty tedious, especially if all you want to do is goof off at a REPL for a few minutes. e.g. I wanted to run some SWT snippets [1], and to import all the necessary SWT classes into Clojure can be a bit of a pain. I found this somewhat appalling bit of code [2] which I can use to get a list of all the classnames in some package and then import them all that way. There are all kinds of ways that code can fail though. Does anyone else have a way that they routinely import lots and lots of Java classes at once? I don't care how dirty a hack it is, I'm not going to do this in production code. I only want to save my fingers a bit of typing. I know this probably isn't planned [3] for Clojure, just looking for the best workaround. [1]: http://www.eclipse.org/swt/snippets/ [2]: http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=341935&start=30&tstart=0 [3]: http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/c65e19d51a5b794c/732925c7936abf83 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
