Yep, and there is a patch ready to go in JIRA:

http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-902

Andy

On Feb 20, 2012, at 3:17 PM, Frank Siebenlist wrote:

> When I request the doc for a namespace, an exception gets thrown (clojure 
> 1.3):
> 
> 
>    user=> (doc clojure.core)
>    ClassNotFoundException clojure.core  java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run 
> (URLClassLoader.java:202)
> 
> 
> I was looking at the source code, and noticed that in the (cond... first the 
> symbol resolved to a var, and if that doesn't work find-ns is tried next.
> However, trying to resolve a namespace symbol to a var throws an exception.
> 
> When you reverse the sequence, like in gist: https://gist.github.com/1872000, 
> and eval that gist, you get:
> 
> 
>    user=> (doc clojure.core)
>    -------------------------
>    clojure.core
>      Fundamental library of the Clojure language
>    nil
>    user=> 
> 
> 
> which is what you want to see.
> 
> Smells like a bug…  maybe change order in (cond… as in the gist-code, or 
> catch exception in (resolve… 
> 
> -FrankS.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
> Groups "Clojure" group.
> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your 
> first post.
> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
> [email protected]
> 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]
Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your 
first post.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
[email protected]
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en

Reply via email to