Hi, just found that every interaction with Clojure REPL causes one more DynamicClassLoader put on the Thread context class loader chain.
Here is how clojure.main/repl beginning looks like: (let [cl (.getContextClassLoader (Thread/currentThread))] (.setContextClassLoader (Thread/currentThread) (clojure.lang.DynamicClassLoader. cl))) And this is how to observe it: nREPL server started on port 19987 REPL-y 0.1.0-beta10 Clojure 1.4.0 Exit: Control+D or (exit) or (quit) Commands: (user/help) Docs: (doc function-name-here) (find-doc "part-of-name-here") Source: (source function-name-here) (user/sourcery function-name-here) Javadoc: (javadoc java-object-or-class-here) Examples from clojuredocs.org: [clojuredocs or cdoc] (user/clojuredocs name-here) (user/clojuredocs "ns-here" "name-here") user=> (defn print-class-loader-stack ([] (print-class-loader-stack (.getContextClassLoader (Thread/currentThread)))) ([cl] (if cl (do (pprint cl) (print-class-loader-stack (.getParent cl))) (println "*Top*")))) #_=> #_=> #_=> #_=> #_=> #_=> #_=> #_=> #'user/print-class-loader-stack user=> (print-class-loader-stack) #<DynamicClassLoader clojure.lang.DynamicClassLoader@26a0c73f> #<DynamicClassLoader clojure.lang.DynamicClassLoader@6f603bdc> #<DynamicClassLoader clojure.lang.DynamicClassLoader@2f368c5d> #<DynamicClassLoader clojure.lang.DynamicClassLoader@5b31fd9> #<AppClassLoader sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader@4aad3ba4> #<ExtClassLoader sun.misc.Launcher$ExtClassLoader@3326b249> *Top* nil user=> 1 1 user=> 1 1 user=> 1 1 user=> 1 1 user=> (print-class-loader-stack) #<DynamicClassLoader clojure.lang.DynamicClassLoader@5be04861> #<DynamicClassLoader clojure.lang.DynamicClassLoader@7481933a> #<DynamicClassLoader clojure.lang.DynamicClassLoader@273f212a> #<DynamicClassLoader clojure.lang.DynamicClassLoader@4178feba> #<DynamicClassLoader clojure.lang.DynamicClassLoader@5323961b> #<DynamicClassLoader clojure.lang.DynamicClassLoader@26a0c73f> #<DynamicClassLoader clojure.lang.DynamicClassLoader@6f603bdc> #<DynamicClassLoader clojure.lang.DynamicClassLoader@2f368c5d> #<DynamicClassLoader clojure.lang.DynamicClassLoader@5b31fd9> #<AppClassLoader sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader@4aad3ba4> #<ExtClassLoader sun.misc.Launcher$ExtClassLoader@3326b249> *Top* nil user=> -- 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