OK, thanks, will do. Simon
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 20:01, Stuart Halloway <stuart.hallo...@gmail.com>wrote: > Let's say that little surprises are not a design objective. :-) > > Please do follow up with additional questions as you have them. > > Stu > > Hi Stu. > > Thanks. That makes sense. > > Is this special-casing documented somewhere, or is it something one can > only > discover by playing? More generally, I'm wondering whether I'm likely to > come across other areas with little surprises as I learn more. An example: > I've been exploring special symbols, and it seems to me that the > documentation doesn't quite match behaviour, or at least the documentation > doesn't say all that it might say -- I might post about that separately. > > Simon > > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 18:23, Stuart Halloway > <stuart.hallo...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi Simon, >> >> in-ns and ns are special cased for convenience. Usually in-ns is used to >> enter a namespace that has already been loaded, so that core names are >> available. For example: >> >> ;; in a file >> (ns my.ns) >> >> ;; stuff >> >> (comment >> (require 'my.ns) >> (in-ns 'my.ns) >> >> ;; tests >> ) >> >> >> Stu >> >> Hi. >> >> I'm learning Clojure, currently using Clojure 1.2. >> >> http://clojure.org/namespaces when talking about creating >> namespaces says: >> At the Repl it's best to use in-ns, in which case the new >> namespace will contain mappings only for the classnames >> in java.lang. In order to access the names from the >> clojure.core namespace you must execute >> (clojure.core/refer 'clojure.core). >> >> Given the above, in the following... >> _________________________________________ >> | >> | user> (in-ns 'my-new-ns) >> | #<Namespace my-new-ns> >> | >> | my-new-ns> (in-ns 'user) >> | #<Namespace user> >> |_________________________________________ >> >> ...how does the second in-ns get resolved? >> For comparison, use of most other operators from my-new-ns gives >> resolution errors. For example: >> _________________________________________ >> | >> | my-new-ns> (+ 1 2) >> | ;; Evaluation aborted. Unable to resolve symbol: + in this context >> |_________________________________________ >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >> >> >> Stuart Halloway >> Clojure/core >> http://clojure.com >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > > > Stuart Halloway > Clojure/core > http://clojure.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
