Lighter-weight aliasing for keywords

that's a pity. but maybe 1.10 will have a shorter release time ...

In any case, I'll be very interested in Rich's idea to do this outside of the ns clause and still have it fit well with clojurescript (or even clojure, for that matter, ...)
Do you have any rationale, why growing ns for this is a bad idea?

ns already does way too much stuff and we don't have any desire to make it do more.

Since ns is essential to how a namespace is set up in clojure, I'd imagine a fix for that problem (of ns doing too much) to imply some rather drastic changes to the state of the art. As we won't break ns, I'd imagine either some sort of ns2 or a way to do namespace setup outside of the ns clause. I'm curious either way.

Since I know, that Rich will not be hassled about his hammock time, I'll lay off this for now. I'll be sure to check back as the next round of alphas goes out. I also hope for some productive discussion in the meantime.

Comment made by: tslocke

Is there any reason such a mechanism would be limited to keywords? I have a place in my code where it would be very useful to have such a feature for symbols.

Also, related: a way for pr-str (and similar) to be configured to use short versions of namespaces. Debug output can be awfully noisy, even with namespaced maps.

No particular reason - usually for stuff like this we make it work the same for any ident (keyword or symbol).