On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Stuart Sierra <[email protected]> wrote: > I've said it before and I will keep saying it: copying symbols by interning > vars breaks the identity of the original vars. It breaks dynamic binding, > with-redefs, and the ability to redefine functions at the REPL. > > Clojure has a two perfectly good mechanisms for making vars available in > other namespaces: > > 1. `refer`. Define a public function that `refer`s all the symbols you want. > It's an extra step for the user, but that's good because it makes it evident > that extra symbols are being added. >
So this would be no different than having the user put an extra 'use' call to use any additional namespaces right? In this case I'd rather have the user explicitly perform the "use" call instead of "refer", like this: (require '[bouncer.core :as b]) (use '[bouncer.validators :only [defvalidator]) Which is what I recommend at the moment. > 2. `load`. If you have N namespaces with no clashing symbols, then you only > need one namespace. If you want to split it across multiple files, use > `load`. `clojure.core` does this. > This sounds like what I want. I'll look into it, thanks. Leo. -- 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
