I agree that wildcards make it "easy" (in the nearness sense), but from a long-term maintainability standpoint, I'd prefer to have explicit imports as is. When I'm reading your code a year from now and need to look-up the docs on a class, wildcards make me (and anyone else in the future) have to do that look-up every time. It's almost the same argument as to why (:use) is a bad idea--you're dumping a bunch of symbols into your namespace. So, you're trading some upfront ease for some long-term simplicity.
Yes, lots of Java tutorials are of no help in this endeavor :( (Again, see the parallel in the Clojure world with so much "getting started/example" code showing :use instead of :require). -Curtis The argument for wildcards is very simple. Go to just about any Java tutorial, for example: > > http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/displayCode.html?code=http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/2d/images/examples/LoadImageApp.java > > The sample code starts off with a dozen wildcard imports. If I want to > try to use these techniques in Clojure, I have absolutely no idea which > specific classes to require. This creates a tremendous obstacle to > consuming Java libraries. This has affected me personally on several > occasions, preventing me from successfully figuring out how to use some > Java library from Clojure. > > Maybe it's not ideal if Clojure has to walk the classpath, but the > alternative is that I have to manually walk the classpath and jars myself > with no idea what I'm looking for. Surely it's better for this to be > handled through an automated process. > -- -- 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.
