I've added a new ticket http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-891 to jira
for adding the ability to make (symbol some-ns "bar") work. That tackles
half of the issue in #4, and reduces your example to just (symbol *ns*
(name sym)).
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On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Stuart Sierra
wrote:
> A matter of curiosity: What are you doing that requires so much symbol
> manipulation?
>
> -S
macros mostly.
most recently a macro that registers a cache with a name to make it
available for flushing via a command line control interface, and
A matter of curiosity: What are you doing that requires so much symbol
manipulation?
-S
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On Thursday, December 1, 2011 8:23:33 PM UTC+1, Alan Malloy wrote:
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> 1) I agree this seems silly but I don't think it's ever bitten me
Ain't this the difference between a language, that's been around for QAW
(Quite A While, maybe even long enough to become a standard, e.g. ANSI) and
a newco
1) I agree this seems silly but I don't think it's ever bitten me
2) I think this has caused me problems once or twice
3) It would be nice to have Named and Namespaced, but I don't think
it's feasible to make the change now - there's too much code assuming
you can get the namespace of a Named thi
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:00 AM, joegallo wrote:
> Here are some things I've run across in Clojure that seem asymmetric to me
> -- I looked through Jira for issues related to these, but I didn't find any
> (of course, I might have just missed them). Some of these might be valid
> enhancements tha
