I guess you're right. There should be a way to import many java classes just as importing an entire clojure namespace.
We could also have exactly the same syntax for clojure namespaces as java classes. So instead of [org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver ArtifactResolver] we would have [org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver :refer [ArtifactResolver]] or [org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver :refer :all] Which would be equivalent to a wildcard. I'm not sure myself which is best. It might be a good idea to separate java importing and ns importing. Jonathan On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Mark Engelberg <mark.engelb...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Jonathan Fischer Friberg < > odysso...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think it's java that is at fault here. I think wildcards should never >> have been part of java to begin with. The argument here is basically >> exactly the same as why :use shouldn't be used, so I wont explain it >> further. > > > Well, Clojure is hosted on Java and clean interop is one of its goals. > > The fact of the matter is that many Java libraries are designed and > documented with the existence of the wildcard in mind. The code is > fragmented across many small classes that are designed to be imported en > masse with a wildcard. The documentation often does not even provide any > details about which specific classes are located where, it simply shows to > use the wildcard to get them all. > > Whether this is Java's "fault", the fact that Clojure does not embrace > this idiom has concretely hurt my ability to use Java code. > > -- > -- > 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
