CLJ-1823 documents the change from CLJ-1208, which is really targeted at
interop use cases where a record type will be imported and instantiated
from Java.
The effect you mention is secondary and I would recommend that the bulk of
the type you are using records, you should require the record ns and refer
the constructor functions for use. In most cases, you do not need to import
or refer to the class itself (in particular, I think it's a bad idea to use
Java interop to construct record instances). The one place where it does
commonly need an import is when you are using the record type to define
cases for something like multimethods or protocol extensions.
Because the new property is optional (and false by default), I would still
recommend an explicit require to load the namespace before using the
constructor functions.
I don't know of any discussions around this change re ClojureScript. Could
you explain the portability issue you have in mind?
On Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at 7:09:43 PM UTC-5, Matching Socks wrote:
>
> A recent announcement of Clojure 1.8.0-beta2 mentioned an interesting
> enhancement,
>
> CLJ-1823 Document new :load-ns option to defrecord/deftype
>
> which I think means that "import" will make a record type fully usable
> without an auxiliary "require". This would be an improvement (for
> Clojure), but it's not the same solution as ClojureScript.
>
> Is eventual convergence of Clojure and ClojureScript record
> require'ment/import'ation envisioned?
>
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