On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Frank Siebenlist <frank.siebenl...@gmail.com > wrote:
> David, please do not apologize… your contributions to clojurescript have > been invaluable, and the last time I checked you still have a full-time job > with that village-newspaper somewhere on the East coast... > > My current efforts are to help improve the clojurescript help facilities. > I have working versions of the apropos, ns-resolve, find-ns, source-fn, > ns-map&friends, and managed to make our clj-ns-browser work with that > clojurescript metadata such that you can browse the cljs-namespaces (see > https://gist.github.com/3803119 and > https://raw.github.com/franks42/clj-ns-browser/cljs/Cljs%20Browser%202012-10-05.pngfor > some "proof of progress"). > > All those facilities run on the clj-jvm and make use of the meta-data in > the cljs.analyzer/@namespaces map. You can invoke them from any clj-repl > that connects to the same jvm while you interact with the cljs-repl. > > To make them available to the cljs-repl, you ideally need some form of > rpc-like calls to get that info from the clj-jvm, like the > clojure.reflect/doc implementation (the repl-prompting is a little awkward, > though - with all the asynchronous processing it may be better to drive the > promp-printing from the js-side… but that's a different discussion) > > As I didn't get clojure.reflect/doc to work, I've used the "special-fns" > interface that you pass into the "cljs.repl/repl" function. However, and I > don't think I will offend anyone, the way how those "special-fns" are > implemented is one huge ugly hack…;-), and I do not really want to share my > project while it depends on that. > > So… that's why I was trying so hard to make that clojure.reflect/doc work > with lein-cljsbuild. > > Regards, FrankS. special-fns is not the way to go :) clojure.reflect should be fixed to do the right thing - it was a oversight to make the interaction asynchronous - it should work precisely as browser REPL does now - synchronously. There's an open ticket for this in JIRA. David -- 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
