Hi all,
When dealing with ClojureScript and Closure library it happens pretty often
that Closure namespace is in the same time constructor for some object.
Take a look for this example:
(ns notepad
(:require
[goog.dom :as dom]
[goog.ui.Zippy :as Zippy]))
First, require forces me to require goog.ui.Zippy as Zippy and later in the
code I have to use fully qualified name instead of provided one.
This works
(goog.ui.Zippy. headerElement contentElement)
This doesn't work, since Zippy is namespace declaration
(Zippy. headerElement contentElement)
I know that we can't have both namespace and function with the same name,
but this is pretty frequent situation in Closure library, and is a bit
awkward.
One solution would be that namespace :as symbol is specialcased so that
without namespace prefix Zippy and Zippy. works like a regular function, and
when in place of namespace prefix, it works as a namespace prefix. That
would be pretty in line with Closure library itselfi.
Then we would be able to use
(require [goog.ui.Zippy :as Zippy])
(def z (Zippy. "ttt" "sss")) ;; same as calls goog.ui.Zippy.
(Zippy/someMethod x) ;; same as goog.ui.Zippy
What would be your proposal for this?
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