FWIW, one work around for this is to include the sub-namespace as well
and reference it from that one. So in your example:
(ns notepad
(:require
[goog.dom :as dom]
[goog.ui :as ui]
[goog.ui.Zippy :as Zippy]))
(ui/Zippy. "ttt" "sss")
On Jul 28, 7:41 am, Marko Kocić <marko.ko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> When dealing with ClojureScript and Closure library it happens pretty often
> that Closure namespace is in the same time constructor for some object.
>
> Take a look for this example:
>
> (ns notepad
> (:require
> [goog.dom :as dom]
> [goog.ui.Zippy :as Zippy]))
>
> First, require forces me to require goog.ui.Zippy as Zippy and later in the
> code I have to use fully qualified name instead of provided one.
>
> This works
> (goog.ui.Zippy. headerElement contentElement)
>
> This doesn't work, since Zippy is namespace declaration
> (Zippy. headerElement contentElement)
>
> I know that we can't have both namespace and function with the same name,
> but this is pretty frequent situation in Closure library, and is a bit
> awkward.
> One solution would be that namespace :as symbol is specialcased so that
> without namespace prefix Zippy and Zippy. works like a regular function, and
> when in place of namespace prefix, it works as a namespace prefix. That
> would be pretty in line with Closure library itselfi.
>
> Then we would be able to use
> (require [goog.ui.Zippy :as Zippy])
> (def z (Zippy. "ttt" "sss")) ;; same as calls goog.ui.Zippy.
> (Zippy/someMethod x) ;; same as goog.ui.Zippy
>
> What would be your proposal for this?
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