Hello Stuart,

"they don't work as you'd expect".

Ah, I see. Thank you ;-)

Hm. Can you point me to some documentation about these special rules
then?

Many thanks, alux



On 30 Apr., 18:10, Stuart Sierra <the.stuart.sie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "ns" and "in-ns" have special evaluation rules.  In general, they
> don't work as you'd expect in block expressions such as "do" or "let".
>
> If you want to create namespaces programatically, use "create-ns" and
> "intern".
>
> -SS
>
> On Apr 26, 6:25 pm, David McNeil <mcneil.da...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I am experimenting with clojure.test and I encountered the following
> > situation which I cannot explain.
>
> > This code:
>
> > (println (do
> >            (ns ns01
> >              (:use clojure.test))
> >            (deftest test1 nil)
> >            (run-tests)))
>
> > Produces the expected result (note: it runs one test):
>
> >     Testing ns01
>
> >     Ran 1 tests containing 0 assertions.
> >     0 failures, 0 errors.
> >     {:type :summary, :test 1, :pass 0, :fail 0, :error 0}
>
> > However, if I do the exact same thing inside of a let:
>
> > (println (let []
> >            (do
> >              (ns ns02
> >                (:use clojure.test))
> >              (deftest test1 nil)
> >              (run-tests))))
>
> > Then I get the unexpected result that no tests are executed:
>
> >     Testing ns02
>
> >     Ran 0 tests containing 0 assertions.
> >     0 failures, 0 errors.
> >     {:type :summary, :test 0, :pass 0, :fail 0, :error 0}
>
> > Seems there is something going on with namespaces that I do not
> > understand and I hope that somewhere here can explain it.
>
> > Thank you.
> > -David McNeil
>
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