In a clean repl, try the following...
(use 'clojure.test)
(is (do (intern 'user 'bob2 2) bob2))
(is (do (def bob3 3) bob3))
The first is form breaks with a "Unable to resolve symbol" error
at the compilation stage. The second one, on the other hand is quite
happy.
Now, I guess what is happening is this. At the compilation stage,
clojure has identified that
(def bob3 3)
happens before
bob3
so, everything is fine. But the same is not happening with the intern
statement. But surely it should be? After all
(intern 'user 'bob3 3)
bob3
is perfectly happy.
I want to use intern because I can do stuff like
(let [nm "bob4"
vl 4]
(intern 'user (symbol nm) vl))
which is harder to do with def.
Any advice?
Phil
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