On Jul 15, 3:10 pm, Rasmus Svensson <r...@lysator.liu.se> wrote: > 2011/7/14 OGINO Masanori <masanori.og...@gmail.com>: > > Hello. > > > What is the right way to display namespace docstrings? > > > One day, as usual, I typed: > > > (doc 'clojure.core) ; or other namespace > > > Then the REPL said "clojure.lang.Cons cannot be cast to > > clojure.lang.Symbol." > > I thought "Ah, I know, the message means "(quote clojure.core) cannot > > be cast to the symbol clojure.core." I'm wrong." and typed: > > > (doc clojure.core) > > > Then the REPL said "ClassNotFoundException clojure.core." > > I thought "Indeed, clojure.core seems to be an class name... > > Precisely, can (doc) display namespace docstrings?" and typed: > > > (source doc) > > > Oh, (doc) uses (find-ns), so (doc) should display namespace docstrings. But > > how? > > Finally I wrote (:doc (meta (the-ns 'clojure.core))) but I know this > > is a wrong way. > > When I forget this ad-hoc solution, I'll repeat above. > > > I determined to ask it because I have repeated again just now and I'm > > annoyed. > > Any thought? > > > Thanks. > > 'doc' is only used for things that are vars (functions, and other > globals). Namespaces are not vars, so you cannot use 'doc' with them. > To see the docs for a namespace, use the 'print-namespace-doc' > function: > > (print-namespace-doc 'the.name.space) >
This is not true in 1.2.x: (doc clojure.core) works fine for me. If it stopped working in 1.3 intentionally, that's fine (I guess?), but it sounds like it was an accident. -- 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
