Thanks Timothy, this is really useful!

On Tuesday, November 7, 2017 at 11:11:30 AM UTC-8, tbc++ wrote:
>
> I structure my code very explicitly. Normally the most common constructs 
> are put in a single file named after the library itself (not in core.clj, 
> do that half your files will be named core). 
>
> https://github.com/halgari/odin/blob/master/src/com/tbaldridge/odin.clj
>
> Anything not in the API that should be unpublished to users is in other 
> namespaces that are imported and wrapped by vars in the main namespace. 
> This does several things:
>
> * Keeps the public interface in one place
> * Allows for a different public interface than the private one. Notice how 
> Odin has its own version of `when`, pulling that off require a bit of 
> careful macro usage, so I'd rather write that once under a different name, 
> then rename it to `when`. 
> * It's now simple to say "anything in this namespace is public and will 
> not change"
>
> Core.async uses a pattern much like this, the API is in 
> clojure.core.async, most of the logic is under *.async.impl.*. 
>
> I don't recommend potemkin's import-vars at all. Clojure vars were not 
> meant to exist in more than one namespace at a time, so potemkin pulls of 
> its magic by linking two vars via watchers. This means that changes to one 
> var can cause side-effects in the other. In addition, bindings don't convey 
> properly (AFAIK), so if you using bindings on one var, the changes won't be 
> seen in the other var. Remember: import-vars doesn't actually import 
> anything, it simply creates a new var in the current namespace and links 
> the two via a two-way binding. It's quite the hack, imo. 
>
> So I have to agree with Potemkin's tagline on github: it's an idea that's 
> "almost good". 
>
> Timothy
>
> On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 11:13 AM, Nick Mudge <ni...@perfectabstractions.com 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> I am interested to know if people/you use import-vars to decouple the 
>> structure of code from its API.
>>
>> import-vars is from the potemkin library: 
>> https://github.com/ztellman/potemkin
>>
>> If you don't use import-vars how do you structure your code and provide 
>> an API?
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