gen-class and need for fully qualified class names

[Jon Seltzer]

Hi all,

I'm sure this is answered somewhere already but can't find it. The :gen-class option of ns macro has access to imports. Why is it that fully qualified class names are still required?

[Elias Zaretsky]

Jon,

The ns macro is expanded such that the (gen-class) form appears before any (import) calls. So unqualified names are not available yet. There are more details in this StackOverflow answer I posted a while back.

Thanks,

Elias.