Is it possible to refer :all like in clojure require?

[D00mch]

Can't find it in docs or other issues.

Start thinking of making macroses that use aniseed.core under the hood to be able to call functions like assoc directyly, without prefix (c.assoc).

P.S. Example, which doesn't work :)

 :assoc
 (fn [...]
   `(let [c# (require aniseed.core)]
     (c#.assoc ,...)))

[Olical]

Not yet, that doesn't exist, nor do I ever ever like using it or seeing it 😅 it's been pushed out of mainstream Clojure use for a reason, it's horribly hard to understand in most cases, some are okay (maybe core?... maybe at a push...) but people start to misuse it can cause all sorts of namespace soup.

If you REALLY want this, then a function or macro could be created that does it (I don't know how it'd work, it requires introducing many things into the global scope, that seems hard at compile time, if not impossible) which you'd put under _G.require-all for example.

Then in the module macro you could use (module foo {require-all [my-module-name]}) which would call your function for you since the module macro passes through to some global function to handle the names.

[Olical]

My point is, I would prefer this to be a kind of 3rd party / user custom thing since I don't like promoting things that splat everything into a namespace / context, I think it proliferates namespace soup where nobody knows where anything came from, personally.

I also don't know how it'd be implemented, it seems really, really hard to get right.

[D00mch]

Ok, I will just use c.assoc without remorse :)

[Olical]

I will however recommend that you can do this now:

(module foo
  {require {{: assoc} aniseed.core}})

(assoc ...)

So we can maybe meet in the middle! It's the splatting of EVERY unknown thing into a context that's always unsettled me. Especially when people use it in documentation and I can't tell what the example is referring to and which module it came from.

[D00mch]

yes, that's even better, I didn't know I could do this.

[D00mch]

It works, but I cant evaluate it in place.

unexpected multi symbol table: 0x010637f280

(module plugin.sandwich
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* Try removing periods or colons from table: 0x010637f280.

(module plugin.sandwich
  {require {nvim aniseed.nvim
            u util
            {: str : assoc} aniseed.core}})

[Olical]

Hm, yeah, I can reproduce, will look into it

[Olical]

Spent my lunch break on it but I think it's fixed now! Pretty tricky stuff to get right since now I have Fennel symbols in some places and tables in other places. So I have to guard against those types and behave differently at various layers.

[Olical]

I only added it this weekend and haven't had a chance to document it other than tweeting it so far :D

On Mon, 25 Apr 2022 at 10:42, Artur Dumchev @.***> wrote:

yes, that's even better, I didn't know I could do this.

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