On Mar 5, 9:24 am, Chouser <chou...@gmail.com> wrote: > So the least-breaking change proposed here would be simply that if > :use is given an :as parameter, that it no longer also refer all the > other symbols directly. > > Rich seemed to want to reduce the breakage here as much as possible, > and IMHO this is pretty minimal. > > If it's still too much potential breakage this behavior could be > attached to a new top-level name such as :uses or :demand, to be a new > sibling of :use and :require.
No!!! Please, not _another_ namespace function. I find all the namespace stuff in Clojure to be overly complicated already. To newcomers, it must be utterly confusing... with ns, use, import, require, refer, and then all the ns-* and *-ns stuff. I think collapsing :use and :require into :use is a great idea. Before I completely understood it, the proposed idea is how I expected :use to work in the first place -- not dumping everything in your namespace when you say :as. As for not wanting to make breaking changes... I'm a little baffled by this considering the whole laziness changes broke my code in _much_ more subtle ways. My two cents is that if we're going to make breaking changes at all, let's do them right, and not introduce yet more cruft with another function. Jonathan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
