On Sep 3, 2008, at 7:11 PM, Rich Hickey wrote: >>> On the subject of shorter, the name "clojure/load" is already in >>> use, but >>> would be a better name for "load-resources" than "load-resources". >>> I think >>> we should consider changing the name of the former to something >>> else like >>> "load-reader" and using "load" for what is now load-resources >>> (and :load for >>> what is now :load-resources). >> >> I have no objection to this. >> > > Me neither, other than the breakage for people using load, most of > whom I presume are loading from strings to do evals, and may be > placated with a load-string.
I've enclosed a patch to implement this.
Changes:
renamed clojure/load to clojure/load-reader
added clojure/load-string
renamed clojure/load-resources to clojure/load
fixed up doc strings accordingly
These changes are all at the Clojure level--the load method of
Compiler is not changed.
$ cd <clojure-root-dir>
$ patch -p0 < load-reader.patch
patching file src/clj/clojure/boot.clj
$
--Steve
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