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Is there an idiomatic way to get available namespaces that can be used?
(all-ns) returns only already used namespaces. (Package/getPackages) returns all Java packages available for import, but only those Clojure namespaces that are already used.
Then I stumbled upon this post, but it uses some classpath magic.
So I want to get something like ('clojure.core 'clojure.set ... 'clojure.contrib.accumulators 'clojure.contrib.condition ...) if I have the clojure.jar and contrib.jar on my classpath, but I haven't used anything yet.
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A namespace is both a name context and a container for vars. Namespace names are symbols where periods are used to separate namespace parts, such as clojure. string . By convention, namespace names are typically lower-case and use - to separate words, although this is not required.
Namespaces are mappings from simple (unqualified) symbols to Vars and/or Classes. Vars can be interned in a namespace, using def or any of its variants, in which case they have a simple symbol for a name and a reference to their containing namespace, and the namespace maps that symbol to the same var.
The generated class automatically defines all of the non-private methods of its superclasses/interfaces. This parameter can be used to specify the signatures of additional methods of the generated class.
Keywords are symbolic identifiers that evaluate to themselves. They provide very fast equality tests... Symbols are identifiers that are normally used to refer to something else. They can be used in program forms to refer to function parameters, let bindings, class names and global vars...
You will need to do "classpath magic". Since there is no kind of registry, you have to walk the classpath and look in every clojure source file to determine what namespaces are available. (In case the files are not AOT compiled. Otherwise you'll need a different heuristic.)
I think the function used in the linked post is the best way to go: clojure.contrib.find-namespaces/find-namespaces-on-classpath.
Deprecated since Clojure 1.3.0; use now clojure.tools.namespace.find/find-namespaces and clojure.java.classpath/classpath from http://github.com/clojure/java.classpath
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