On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Alan <a...@malloys.org> wrote:
> On May 15, 7:26 pm, Ken Wesson <kwess...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Instance one is right near the end of section 2.9.1:
>>
>> "This is because report-ns exists in the joy.ch1 namespace and ..."
>>
>> The correct namespace name is joy.ch2.
>>
>> Instance two is in 2.9.4:
>>
>> "It should be noted that :rename also works with the :use directive."
>>
>> This doesn't seem to be true, at least not for clojure 1.2.0 and the
>> use function:
>>
>> user=> (use 'clojure.string :rename '{replace sreplace reverse sreverse})
>> #<CompilerException java.lang.Exception: Unsupported option(s)
>> supplied: :rename (NO_SOURCE_FILE:0)>
>
> This works fine. Each argument to use is either a namespace symbol, or
> a list of some kind, representing a namespace and options for its use.
>
> user> (use '[clojure.string :rename {replace sreplace reverse
> sreverse}])
> nil
> user> sreplace
> #<string$replace clojure.string$replace@d09341>
So it's the error message that contains the bug. It's misleading,
since it clearly, but falsely, stated that the option :rename was
unsupported.
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