ahh might be an old spec version…

Yeah I had an old spec; can confirm the issue is gone when using latest spec1 😌

when defining a fdef spec for a function that is in different namespace, I can use fully qualified name. How can I alias fully-qualified part? e.g: - fn implementation of foo is in core.common - spec is in core.specs - I can do (s/fdef core.common/foo bla-bla-bla) I cannot require core.common in core.specs, to avoid circular reference since specs are used in core.common. But because I’m using qualified name of foo - instrumentation still works. But how can I use alias for core.common, so I don’t have to repeatedly write it fully? clojure.core/alias doesn’t work, because core.common cannot be imported in this namespace

I don't think there's a way.

currently, you can't do this (other than by creating it as a namespace, which will then allow you to alias it).

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ I’m sad and dissatisfied. It is totally entire Cognitect’s fault.

it’s beginning to feel like we need something like alias but that doesn’t require the namespace to be loaded

yeah… please have it… or I’m gonna… about to.. leave Clojure and do…. I dunno something else… woodworking or papier mache figurines to sell them on farmer’s market

esp. in ClojureScript where you can’t even ad-hoc create the namespace

yeah, this is something we've talked about for a while and there is a ticket placeholder for it

we would like to have a lighter-weight aliasing mechanism (lighter than "creating namespaces") and I expect that could be used in both clj and cljs

placeholder is https://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-2123

hoping to do some work on this in 1.11

I feel your pain :)