Hi @UUAKPEMJ9! Is your goal to execute a main function dynamically?

resolve returns nil because you should in this case load the namespace yourself

Hmm, I'm still learning clj, so I may be confusing something. My goal is actually to create the symbol to be evaluated from the command line args (context: writing a setup for Advent of Code in bb, and want to have task to run solution for a puzzle of a given day, like bb solve 1. I'd have a namespace day1.solution with a -main func there. But each day will add another namespace, and I don't want to update tasks each day bc I want to automate stuff 🙂).

You could use requiring-resolve:

(requiring-resolve (symbol "foo.bar" "-main"))

that gets you the var, but then you still need to call that a function:

(apply (requiring-resolve (symbol "foo.bar" "-main")) *command-line-args*)

or just

((requiring-resolve (symbol "foo.bar" "-main")))

Excellent -- that works! Thank you 🙂

You can also try:

{:task (exec (symbol "foo.bar" "baz"))}

What this does is it parses the command line arguments with babashka.cli and then executes the function denoted by the symbol foo.bar/baz with those arguments

And that works, too

See https://book.babashka.org/#cli:exec

Thanks