Thanks Rich! I'll keep an eye on the defect(shame there isn't a watch feature on google code). Other than this little minor annoyance, the new AOT changes are working great. Thanks for all the work, I'm really enjoying Clojure.
On Dec 17, 6:45 am, Rich Hickey <richhic...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Dec 17, 12:43 am, Kevin Martin <martink...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I unfortunately ran intocircularrequires today. In previous > > versions of Clojure acircularrequirewas answered with an > > exception. The text of this was something along the lines of "Cannot > > load 'a' because already loading 'a'. It looks as though this was > > changed with svn revision 1131 Sun Nov 30 12:58:30 2008 > > +0000.http://clojure.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/clojure?view=rev&revision=1131 > > The commit message is "made nested load of already loading resource a > > no-op instead of a throw". This implies this was an intentional > > change. I found this > > posthttp://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/d3dd0486f... > > where Rich seems to conclude thatcircularreferences are an error > > waiting to be debugged. I agree with this sentiment and I'm confused > > as to why this was changed. > > It was changed for AOT compilation, where it is now possible to gen- > class a class that gets responsibility for loading that same ns on > init, said init happening when the ns containing the gen-class is > compiled. > > > If there is another thread I didn't find explaining this, please point > > me to it. Otherwise, I am interesting why this was changed to what I > > vote is a worse design choice. > > I hope to re-enable the detection of the 'mistake' case, just requires > some time to work out how to distinguish from the AOT case. > > http://code.google.com/p/clojure/issues/detail?id=3 > > Rich --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
