"This is not a good idea, for many reasons, the simplest of which is: it
makes loading a side effect of calling a function in a module. Since
loading can have arbitrary effects, it shouldn't be implicit. This isn't
warranted by the meager benefits it might provide." -- Rich Hickey
http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-461
On Friday, March 23, 2012 4:37:15 PM UTC-7, FrankS wrote:
>
> I can see the need for refer and alias, but why can the compiler not infer
> from the use of a fully qualified name that a namespace (or class) that is
> not loaded yet, has to be "required"?
>
> Or did I miss anything?
>
> -FrankS.
>
>
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