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      find-var

      clojure.core

      Available since 1.0 (source)
      • (find-var sym)
      Returns the global var named by the namespace-qualified symbol, or
nil if no var with that name.
      © Rich Hickey. All rights reserved. Eclipse Public License 1.0
      1 Example
      user=> (find-var 'clojure.core/map)
#'clojure.core/map
user=> (find-var 'clojure.core/qwerty)
nil
user=> (find-var 'map)
IllegalArgumentException Symbol must be namespace-qualified  clojure.lang.Var.find (Var.java:150)
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      1 Note
        By , created 7.1 years ago

        For namespaces other than those in Clojure, you must do (require 'the-ns) first, followed by (find-var 'the-ns/the-name). Failing to do this leads to IllegalArgumentException thrown complaining about no such namespace.