Question

In Clojure, how do I get the name of the namespace in which variables and functions are named? For example, improving the following:

(ns my-ns)

(def namespace-name "my-ns")

The problem with the above is that if I want to change the name of my-ns, I have to change the definition of namespace-name as well

Answer 1

A simple modification of Arthur’s answer works well.

(def namespace-name (ns-name *ns*))

However I want to warn Clojure beginners that

(defn namespace-name [] (ns-name *ns*))

will not work for the purposes of this question, since *ns* is bound dynamically.