I want to examine the namespace within a swing thread, as I want to see if a particular var is defined from another part of the program before operating on it. However, inside the "do-swing" macro (or just using SwingUtilities/invokeLater directly) *ns* will always refer to clojure.core, not the namespace of the file I'm working on.
eg: (ns some-namespace) (javax.swing.SwingUtilities/invokeLater (fn [] (println *ns*))) will print: #<Namespace clojure.core> But if I'm defensive and copy *ns*: (ns other-namespace) (def this-namespace *ns*) (javax.swing.SwingUtilities/invokeLater (fn [] (println this- namespace))) will print: #<Namespace other-namespace> as expected. Interestingly, all DEF instructions are interned into the expected namespaces: other-namespace> (javax.swing.SwingUtilities/invokeLater (fn [] (def somevar 1))) nil other-namespace> somevar 1 other-namespace> clojure.core/somevar ; Evaluation aborted. other-namespace> other-namespace/somevar 1 Is this expected behaviour? -- 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. 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
