CODEWITHSUNDEEP
clojure
Le3wood
Le3wood

Reputation: 311

Why does ns-resolve after :refer :all not find my symbol?

If I begin a program with

(ns dailyprogrammer.core
  (:gen-class)
  (:require [dailyprogrammer.other :refer :all]))

and then later on attempt to resolve a function hello which is defined inside other using resolve or ns-resolve like so:

(resolve (symbol "hello"))
(ns-resolve *ns* (symbol "hello"))

I get nil returned. But I can simply call

(hello)

which will work. Why can't I use either resolve function?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 162

Answers (1)

noisesmith
noisesmith

Reputation: 20194

ns-resolve does not look up symbols visible in *ns*, it looks up symbols that are defined in *ns*. :refer :all makes all symbols from the other ns visible in your definitions, it does not move or replicate their vars into your ns.

Upvotes: 4

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