On Feb 2, 2010, at 8:40 PM, Stuart Halloway wrote:

> In teaching people Clojure, non-intuitive behavior with use/require is the #1 
> problem for beginners, by a mile. I believe we need both ordinary function 
> and macro versions, and I am pretty sure that a well-considered patch 
> implementing this would be accepted.
> 
> SS: is require* an acceptable name for the function version?

I think it's a good name and a good idea.

I believe it's also possible to make the change backward compatible so 
arguments to the new require macro would work quoted or not. (by detecting and 
ignoring (quote ...) special forms in arguments).

--Steve

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