When should clojure keywords be in namespaces?

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Published on 2010-03-20T04:55:43Z Indexed on 2010/03/20 5:01 UTC
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In clojure, keywords evaluate to themselves, e.g.:

>>:test
:test

They don't take any parameters, and they aren't bound to anything. Why then, would we need to qualify keywords in a namespace?

I know that creating isa hierachies using derive requires namespace qualified keywords. Are there any other cases where there is a clear need for keywords to be in a namespace?

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