I've just spent some time today looking at the compiler code, and unfortunately I think the answer is "no". When a symbol is imported, Clojure currently instantiates the Class object using Class.forName() and stores that in the namespace's mapping. At the point the Class is instantiated, static initializers are run. So the only way to avoid that is not instantiate the Class and store something else in the mapping.
Alex's suggestion above to store the string representing the class name and load the class on demand might work for REPL style development but won't work for AOT compilation since reflection is used to find fields, methods etc on the class during compilation. The only solution that I can see that would work for AOT would be to store some sort of class wrapper object which reads the class bytecode to get that information without instantiating the class. However both of these suggestions break a fairly fundamental assumption - that importing a class creates a mapping from its name to a Class object. I have no idea what sort of code might be out there making that assumption, but it's probably fair to assume there could be a lot of it. At some point I might look into creating a fork of Clojure I just use to AOT compile. On 12 December 2013 03:41, Robin Heggelund Hansen <skinney...@gmail.com>wrote: > Is this something that is fixable? > > -- > -- > 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.
