Useful for abstracting utility libs?

[gfredericks]

I've been thinking a bit about the friction I experience with utility libs (e.g., I never want to use more than one at a time, preferably the same one every time); I think it mainly has to do with the overhead of remembering all the namespaces involved, which increases drastically if you start using lots of small one-off utility libs.

One possible way of approaching that problem is to have a plugin that lets you declare all your utility functions in your project.clj and have them combined into a single special/magical namespace so that at least requires can be less noisy.

Which sounds a lot like what lein-shorthand does, with the crucial difference being you would want this special namespace to work the same in production.

I'm not sure if there's a decent way to do both of these things at the same time, and the name "lein-shorthand" doesn't really suggest the use case I'm talking about. But I thought I would bring it up anyways to see what others' thoughts are.