I have a horrible hack to do this, which uses even more appalling code
than [2] ripped off from a different forum, but which (in my limited
experience) seems to work OK.  I'll email it to you privately, and to
anyone else who wants to use it (just ask).

-Jason

On Feb 20, 9:33 pm, Brian Carper <briancar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> One could argue that wildcard imports in Java (import package.*) are
> evil, pollute your namespaces, create potential naming conflicts,
> etc.  One would probably be correct.
>
> One could also argue that having to manually type a list of dozens of
> classnames is pretty tedious, especially if all you want to do is goof
> off at a REPL for a few minutes.  e.g. I wanted to run some SWT
> snippets [1], and to import all the necessary SWT classes into Clojure
> can be a bit of a pain.
>
> I found this somewhat appalling bit of code [2] which I can use to get
> a list of all the classnames in some package and then import them all
> that way.  There are all kinds of ways that code can fail though.
> Does anyone else have a way that they routinely import lots and lots
> of Java classes at once?  I don't care how dirty a hack it is, I'm not
> going to do this in production code.  I only want to save my fingers a
> bit of typing.
>
> I know this probably isn't planned [3] for Clojure, just looking for
> the best workaround.
>
> [1]:http://www.eclipse.org/swt/snippets/
> [2]:http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=341935&start=30&tstart=0
> [3]:http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/c65e19d51...
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