we’re using this macro in Clojure to use namespaced keywords throughout our codebase while avoiding circular deps.

(defmacro ns-alias
  "Set up a custom alias for use with namespace keywords.

  (ns-alias com.nextjournal.journal.system sys)"
  [ns as]
  `(do
     (create-ns '~ns)
     (alias '~as '~ns)))

now we’re trying to add cljs support for this but there’s not alias there. Is there a workaround for this?

you could just not use aliases?

@mkvlr somebody will need to add alias

@alexmiller of course but that’s quite tedious to spell out or I don’t understand what you mean

one way to avoid this problem is specs only namespaces, at least IME

@dnolen thanks, will consider that. But there’s also no particular reason why alias couldn’t be added?

fyi, this is an area we might add a lightweight alias support (not requiring namespace creation/use) to Clojure (and ClojureScript) in future

I heard this, this would be 💯

there's nothing prevent alias but it's really annoying - not hard but you need to follow the rules for top-level require

well maybe hard - I don't know

the ns stuff is pretty gnarly - and this would be new thing - alias only - no namespace

but I don't see any problems with it no

create-ns isn't meaningful but could exist for compatibility

alright, thanks for the pointers!