Don't use private vars. Instead move the macro to a sub namespace called "internals" or "impl" or something like that and make it public. Prefer trusting your users instead of limiting them.
my $0.02 Timothy On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Yoav Rubin <yoavru...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm familiar with that trick, but is it a language feature (and then I can > rely on to not being changed in the future)? or is it a hack that based on > something that may change in future releases? > > Thanks, > > Yoav > > > On Monday, March 17, 2014 4:09:23 PM UTC+2, Maik Schünemann wrote: > >> Hi, >> I guess that maybe the same trick works for calling private functions >> from another namespace via getting the var and calling it. >> That being said, macros calling macros gets very complex after a short >> time, it is better to have helper functions instead of macros. >> The functions just accept s-expressions and return s-expressions. I >> find myself doing exactly that for nontrivial macros. >> >> Hope that helps, >> Maik >> >> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 7:02 AM, Yoav Rubin <yoav...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi All, >> > >> > I have a namespace that has two macros as part of its public API, and >> > another macro that act as helpers for the public macro >> > >> > (defmacro helper-mac [arg1 arg2 f] >> > ;; do stuff with f , arg1 and arg2 >> > ) >> > >> > (defmacro m0 [arg1 arg2] >> > (priv-mac arg1 arg2 f1) >> > ) >> > >> > (defmacro m1 [arg1 arg2] ( >> > (priv-mac arg1 arg2 f2) >> > ) >> > >> > f1 and f2 are just two functions. >> > >> > I would like to make the helper macro private (using ^:private), but >> when I >> > do it and call either m0 or m1 from another namespace, I get an >> exception >> > saying that helper-mac is private. >> > >> > Is it possible to call from to a macro in another namespace when that >> macro >> > is calling a private macro in its namespace? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > Yoav >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups "Clojure" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to clo...@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+u...@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+u...@googlegroups.com. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- "One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that-lacking zero-they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs." (Robert Firth) -- 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/d/optout.
