Hi,
On Feb 22, 2010, at 2:20 AM, Meikel Brandmeyer wrote:
> First some fixes:
>
> (defmacro #^{:private true} use-private
> [ns sym]
> `(def ~(with-meta sym {:private true}) @(ns-resolve '~ns '~sym)))
Awesome!
>> 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...
>
> This only expands to (quote sym) because you put in (quote sym). You
> haven't shown the invocation of your macro, but that's most likely the
> cause.
You're absolutely right. I use 'ns and 'sym because that's what all of the ns-
functions use. I realize now that this is a macro, not a fn... :) I would
like to make the fact that this is a macro transparent, so that it only accepts
symbol arguments. The caller shouldn't have to know that this is a macro.
>> 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?
>
> Use @#'foo.bar/private-fn. Or...
Thanks!
> My approach to this is to get rid of private function entirely.
> Everything is public. Put "private" functions of the namespace foo.bar
> in the namespace foo.bar.internal. Then simply :use the internal
> namespace in foo.bar. Make it clear that users using foo.bar.internal
> have to face eternal doom in the hottest corners of hell.
That's what I figured, since the few library implementations I've read seem to
do that. I assume there's a way to remove these namespaces from generated
docs, so there's at least some obfuscation?
Thanks,
Johnny
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