On Aug 2, 2010, at 3:34 , Kyle Schaffrick wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to write a library with two main parts. The first is a > macro, I'll call it 'with-feature, that walks through forms passed > inside it, and any time it sees a call to another function in my > library, 'feature, do some transformations. > > The problem I'm concerned about is as follows: When my macro sees the > forms that are passed into it, the symbols come in however the consumer > of the library wrote them. So say I :require my library and alias it to > 'mylib', then the call 'with-feature is looking for appears as > 'mylib/feature. Or, I could :use the library, and then it would appear > as 'feature, or I could alias 'feature to 'banana--you get the idea. > > I don't want to reserve some magic symbol name that defies namespace > rules, so that if the library consumer code uses the symbol 'feature > to mean something different, they get bizarre results. > > What is a good pattern for writing the "matching" logic in such a > selectively-transforming macro so that it can properly find the magic > call it's looking for in the presence of normal namespacing behavior? > > Thanks,
Hi Kyle, I face a simular chalange in clj-sandbox, and I ended up matching against the variable name only not the namespace so bla not a.b.c/bla. I know it's not perfect but at least it only yields false positives in the worst case, not false negatives :). Regards, heinz. -- 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
