is there a quick way to flush the slipnet library thing?

What's the rationale for having a spec registry?

https://clojure.org/about/spec

The Data spec registration and Function spec registration sections in https://clojure.org/about/spec get at it

guess I was wondering if you'd add any additional color

not a lot to add beyond that

there was a desire to not keep shoving stuff into var meta

@alexmiller I wondered "Vars themselves are a kind of registry, no?"

or vars

gotcha

with good names, we are not limited to a single “var” registry

if you use vars, you need namespaces to hold them

with a separate registry, it’s perfectly ok to make a spec named :a.b.c.d.e.f.g/foo without having a related namespace

Rich has some future ideas on managing names and aliases independently from namespaces

this pleases me greatly

we have a spec aliases macro for calling alias + create-ns that we use, and while it works, it doesn't have good mouth feel

yeah, that’s a hack. we have aims to do better.

there's also the potential for the "oops, someone clobbered a spec name and didn't know about it" situation