Or keys your library adds to a var, for instance.

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Cedric Greevey <cgree...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The main use for qualified keywords that occurs to me is if you have a
> "promiscuous map" that will be holding key/value pairs submitted by
> multiple pieces of code of distinct origins. A big registry of preferences
> that can be added to by plugins would be an example, with qualified
> keywords making it much less likely for two plugins to be made that are
> incompatible with each other because they keep overwriting each others'
> preferences.
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Jim foo.bar <jimpil1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 10/04/13 14:03, Simon Katz wrote:
>>
>>> Second, Clojure supports namespace-qualified keywords, presumably
>>> because it's possible that different libraries might want to use the same
>>> keyword for different purposes.
>>>
>>
>> I don't think that is the reason for having namespace-qualified
>> keywords...different libraries might want to use the same keyword for
>> different purposes and that is fine - no clashes (or at elast I've not
>> understood what you mean).
>>
>> It's my understanding that ::foo has (or should have) actual 'meaning' in
>> whatever namespace it exists whereas :foo doesn’t really have any 'meaning'.
>>
>> I don't really think you want to access your record fields with a
>> namespace-qualified keyword, do you? How would that work exactly? what if
>> you got an instance of the record outside the namespace where the
>> namespace-qualified keyword is defined? It doesn't make sense to me at
>> all...
>>
>> Jim
>>
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