I find that having both `:use` and `:require` in my `ns` declarations can, with 
a little judicious formatting, communicate something about which packages are 
core and which are peripheral. Having to obfuscate that distinction with a 
`:refer :all` tacked - in a visually obscure way - onto `:require` forms would 
make me sad. Not wildly sad, but wistfully sad that people would prefer a 
breaking change to simply avoiding something they don't want to use.

Or:

On Aug 5, 2013, at 11:48 AM, Lee Spector <lspec...@hampshire.edu> wrote:

> My point is just that the needs and priorities are diverse, and I wish people 
> wouldn't be so enthusiastic about deprecating features that are valued by 
> others in the community.

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