I agree that it's important to think about how you should organize your namespaces, but it would be nice present a clean outward API without disturbing the implementation too much. I think the rational for import-vars in the potemkin readme makes a good case: https://github.com/ztellman/potemkin#import-vars
On Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 4:11:09 PM UTC+2, Alex Miller wrote: > > It's possible we could make use of Java's module system if it ever > actually gets released in Java 9. While I followed it pretty extensively > when they first started discussing it (7 or 8 years ago!) I have not been > keeping up on it lately. Some people have used OSGi with Clojure but I > don't gather that it's a picnic. Designing a good module system, especially > one that takes into account Java's classloader architecture, is a > challenging task. > > Personally, I think it's probably useful to think about your namespace > layout, so I'm not really looking to get rid of the thinking part. :) > > > On Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 6:05:25 AM UTC-5, Lars Andersen wrote: >> >> I'd love a module system solving the following problems: >> >> 1. Dependency isolation >> 2. Being able to export vars without having to think about namespace >> layout in the project >> >> 1. Is a serious problem where transitive dependencies on the classpath >> put consumers in "jar hell" and force library and tooling authors to either >> inline code, re-invent the wheel, attempt to run their code in isolated >> classloaders or turn to source rewriting. >> >> 2. Is a nice to have which is solved today by in potemkin's import-vars, >> but I think this makes sense to include if modules are added to the >> language. >> >> We might get some of this for free whenever project jigsaw gets released, >> but considering it was due in 2007, originally, I'm hoping this can be >> solved without the help of Oracle. >> >> -- 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.
