It is there to support the “:reload” and “:reload-all” features of “require” and to help separate the concern of loading libs from the concern of tracking namespaces.
--Steve > On Jan 29, 2018, at 6:36 PM, Raymond Huang <12ay.hu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was poking around `tools.namespace` and I found it interesting that the > implementation of `remove-lib` is: > > ```(defn remove-lib > "Remove lib's namespace and remove lib from the set of loaded libs." > [lib] > (remove-ns lib) > (dosync (alter @#'clojure.core/*loaded-libs* disj lib))) > ``` > > > I’m wondering if someone can enlighten me to explain why `*loaded-libs*` > needs to exist, as opposed to checking `clojure.lang.Namespace` directly? > > This is a question carried over from slack: > https://clojurians.slack.com/archives/C03S1KBA2/p1517211857000021 > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
