At first glance, it seems like you probably 
want http://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/ns-resolve

On Tuesday, February 6, 2018 at 2:38:06 PM UTC-6, Randy J. Ray wrote:
>
> First, some brief background/context: I've been playing around with 
> Clojure for a while, mostly just doing Project Euler problems. I'm taking 
> the "Algorithms Specialization" from Coursera, and decided to do all the 
> programming assignments in Clojure as a way of tackling some larger, deeper 
> problems. But overall, my understanding of Clojure overall is still fairly 
> mild.
>
> What I want to do, is write some scaffolding around the weekly programming 
> tasks that automates the execution of the user-contributed test-cases. I'd 
> like to be able to add a new form to be tested in a single place (e.g., the 
> project's core.clj file) and have a re-compile be able to find out that the 
> new namespace is now in place, locate the test-files, and execute the form 
> with each test-input.
>
> I'm pretty sure I can handle locating the test files as long as they're on 
> the file system (I'm looking at the fs package for walking around the file 
> system). But is there a way to (semi-)transparently handle the data files 
> being resources within the JAR, as well?
>
> Also, how would I take a pair of strings (namespace and form-name, 
> respectively) and turn that into the callable function? For example, if my 
> set of desired test-forms were a simple nested list:
>
> (("algorithms.class1.week1.karatsuba-mult" "karatsuba-mult")
>  ("algorithms.class1.week2.count-inv" "count-inv")
>  ...)
>
> (Currently, the last ns element is the same as the function-name to call, 
> but some of these will have multiple implementations that I'll want to time 
> for comparison, so this won't always be the case.)
>
> So, for the first "test", I want to turn 
> ("algorithms.class1.week1.karatsuba-mult" 
> "karatsuba-mult") into a binding that will call 
> algorithms.class1.week1.karatsuba-mult/karatsuba-mult when used as a 
> function. I know how to do this in other languages (my strongest is Perl, 
> but don't hold that against me!), just not in Clojure.
>
> The interface of all tests is the same-- they take the name of the input 
> file as a single input, and return a string as a result (I have 
> result-files in the same dirs as the input files, for comparison. I just 
> need to be able to iterate over the forms to test, and the test-cases for 
> each form.
>
> (I say "I just need", but I'll probably be back with more questions after 
> I get these answered...)
>
> Randy
> -- 
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