Here's a great post on the subject by Stuart Sierra:
http://stuartsierra.com/2015/05/10/clojure-namespace-aliases
- Matthew
On Friday, June 5, 2015 at 9:33:32 PM UTC-6, Todd Stout wrote:
What is considered idiomatic when using :as and :require in your namespace
declarations? I understand
Yes, I should have said :refer, not :require.
On Friday, June 5, 2015 at 11:09:37 PM UTC-5, Sean Corfield wrote:
I think you mean :as vs :refer?
The consensus is that using :as makes it easier to see where each symbol
comes from when you're reading the code -- and avoids name conflicts
What is considered idiomatic when using :as and :require in your namespace
declarations? I understand that :as will require everything in the
namespace to use symbol/fn syntax. The :require usage will mandate more
verbose symbol references in the ns declaration, but your code in that
namespace
I think you mean :as vs :refer?
The consensus is that using :as makes it easier to see where each symbol
comes from when you're reading the code -- and avoids name conflicts
between functions in different namespaces.
If you use :refer, you lose that visibility. However, there are some
symbols
