Hi All,
I'm trying to test some private functions using the Clojure convention of
placing tests in a separate test- namespace. Of course, you can't reference
private vars from other namespaces (please correct me if I'm wrong). Not
knowing anything at all about how stuff is interned in Clojure, I found this
blog post:
http://formpluslogic.blogspot.com/2009/08/clojure-unit-testing-part-1.html.
Using ns-resolve works.
I'm trying to generalize it into a macro named use-private
(defmacro
#^{:private true}
use-private
[ns sym]
`(def
#^{:private true}
~sym (ns-resolve ~ns ~sym)))
This, however, doesn't work. The first ~sym macroexpands to (quote sym), which
cannot be passed as a name to def. An exception is thrown saying that the
first argument must be a symbol, and this is because, I assume, that the quote
form is a form. So...
Is there a better way the community has found to test private functions?
Is there a way to reference private functions from a test- namespace? Is there
some proposal floating around to allow this?
Is there a better approach than my ghetto macro, outside of extending the core
language and libraries?
In my ghetto macro, how do I get the sym arg to macroexpand to just the sym and
not a quote form?
Thanks,
Johnny
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