I can't think of a single good reason to not deprecate :use. :require can do everything :use could do now.
This isn't about whether or not (:use ..) without :only is bad. I'd go as far as to say that outside of test files (and sometimes not even those) and repl sessions, :use without :only is objectively bad. Not much justification you can give me that'll make it unbad. But that isn't what this is about. Deprecating :use doesn't make doing the aforementioned bad thing impossible, and :refer :all was added to require for that specific purpose. :require still lets you do bad things if you really want to. All we're doing by deprecating :use is removing cruft and making things less complicated for new people. We currently have two things, and one of them does all the things the other one does and more, yet we still have both of them. Just my $0.02. On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 8:50:50 AM UTC-7, Greg wrote: > > I think I read somewhere that :use is no longer encouraged, but I could be > mistaken. > > From what I've read, it seems like most people agree that Clojure has too > many ways of including/importing/referencing/requiring/using things: > > > http://blog.8thlight.com/colin-jones/2010/12/05/clojure-libs-and-namespaces-require-use-import-and-ns.html > > > The above gives a very nice explanation of all the various difference, but > it also acknowledges their complexity. > > Since :use uses :require, and since :require can do everything that :use > can, can we simplify Clojure programming a bit for newcomers by deprecating > the use of :use? The situation in ClojureScript is even worse because it > adds :require-macros on top of all the other ways of including files. > > Ideally, it would be awesome if there was just a single directive for > everything, but perhaps there's some complicated low-level reason why > that's not possible. :-\ > > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > Greg > > P.S. If this has already been brought up you have my sincere apologies. > > -- > Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing > with the NSA. > > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
