Question

• defn = public
• defn- = private

Perhaps I have bad Clojure coding style — but I find that most functions I write in Clojure are small helper functions that I do not want to expose.

Is there some configuration option, where:

• defn = private by default,
• and to make something public, I have to do defn+?

Thanks!

Answer 1

No. There is not.

An alternative approach which might or might not work for you is to declare a foo.bar.internal namespace containing all the private helpers which is used by your foo.bar namespace. This has advantages over private function declarations when you want to use private functions in macro expansions.