converts a string to an object

(from-string “a” clojure.lang.Symbol) => ’a

(from-string “std.string” clojure.lang.Namespace) => (find-ns ’std.string)

returns the default path separator for an object

(path-separator clojure.lang.Namespace) => “.”

(path-separator clojure.lang.Keyword) => “/”

wraps a function so that it can compare any two string-like inputs

((str:compare =) :hello ’hello) => true

wraps a string function such that it can take any string-like input

((str:op str false) :hello ’hello) => :hellohello

((str:op str true) :hello ’hello) => “hellohello”

converts an object to a string

(to-string :hello/world) => “hello/world”

(to-string ns) => “std.string.coerce-test”