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Re:Steve Yegge v. Rich Hickey re: "Clojure just needs to sta... by arohner on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @03:07PM (#2467933)
Thank you, Rich, very informative.

What is the rationale behind not letting 'declare' declare vars in other namespaces? I've run into that when dealing with circular dependencies, and sometimes it seems that would help.

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Re:Steve Yegge v. Rich Hickey re: "Clojure just needs to sta... by richhickey on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @03:30PM (#2468027)
Such declarations are possible (as would be accepting fully-qualified references to not-yet-existing things), but the devil's in the details again - e.g. what if the other ns doesn't yet exist?

And the complexity/utility tradeoffs must be considered.

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