You know when after a few months of dating someone, they do something that touches you and fall in love all over again. It just happened to me and Clojure. I was playing with Korma and I had the following namespace declaration:
(ns carouselapps.db.core
(:require
[korma.core :refer :all]
[korma.db :as db]
[environ.core :refer [env]]
[to-jdbc-uri.core :refer [to-jdbc-uri]]))
which was generating this warning:
WARNING: update already refers to: #'clojure.core/update in namespace:
carouselapps.db.core, being replaced by: #'korma.core/update
What now? I thought I was going to spend the next two hours figuring out a clean way to deal with this, but nope, it took 5 minutes to figure out I could just rename korma.core/update as I was requiring it:
(ns carouselapps.db.core
(:require
[korma.core :refer :all :rename {update sql-update}]
[korma.db :as db]
[environ.core :refer [env]]
[to-jdbc-uri.core :refer [to-jdbc-uri]]))
This is the kind of real world pragmatism that you rarely see in programming languages, specially those rooted in academic practices, like being a Lisp, which Clojure is.
I fell in love all over again. Sometimes it’s the small things you know!