Yes, this has been suggested in the past, and would enable all sorts of useful tooling features.
The off-the-top-of-my-head solution (a priori of a proper statement of the problem :-P would be for all namespaces (c.l.Namespace/namespaces) and each namespace's aliases and mappings to be held in atoms — which could then have watches set on them. Each aliases and mappings are already held in AtomicReferences, so things are halfway there in a sense. Along the same lines, there's been talk in the past of attempting to make loading code transactional. At a minimum, this would imply using refs instead of atoms for the structures mentioned above, with each ns/require/use/load usage implying a dosync over the affected references. There may well be bootstrapping issues with such changes. - Chas On Sep 15, 2011, at 9:03 AM, Stathis Sideris wrote: > Hello, > > Is it somehow possible to monitor all namespaces for new defs or re- > defs (and defns etc). Generally, it it possible to implement some sort > of notification whenever something is added or updated to a namespace? > I don't mind even the solution is hacky or not very fast. > > The reason I'm asking is because such functionality would be very > useful for creating development tools that would react to the > developer eval-ing a function or re-compiling a file etc. > > Thanks, > > Stathis > > -- > 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
