Hi, On Jul 19, 11:09 pm, Laurent PETIT <laurent.pe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You got me thinking that all the stuff I and you were talking about > concerning namespace dependency graph, etc. for only reloading the > appropriate namespaces should be possible to be run from the running REPL, > and thus provided as a regular tool to be available to all environments: > REPL, any IDE / back-end server etc. > > In its "pure" form it could recompute the dependency graph of the namespaces > every time "on-the-fly". > > With this function, even from the REPL could you be sure that you have all > the functions depending on the macros of some modified namespace up-to-date. > It is even possible to solve the "functions should be removed if no more in > the namespace" issue, by adding temporary watchers to the namespace vars, > and then removing all the vars whose watchers were not triggered and are not > defonce vars (this defonce issue being the last problem I currently see: how > to know that defonce vars have been removed ? The only solution I > temporarily envision is to rebind the defonce macro during the reload with a > decorator which will store information about defonced vars). > > Of course, some corner cases will still exist: direct access to vars in > other namespaces via other-ns/the-var while not explicitly requiring/using > other-ns (maybe "oddly" relying on other-ns to be loaded preliminary, by > other means). I had hopes that this discussion http://groups.google.com/group/clojure-dev/browse_thread/thread/b9d15561e8a3b5aa/0541da4e70ad682d triggers something, but Stephen obviously didn't have the time to work further on this topic. Sincerely Meikel -- 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
