Rich,
Would you accept a patch to implement this?
--Steve
On Sep 30, 2008, at 12:25 AM, Craig McDaniel wrote:
>
> Yes, I'd like to see *err* added too. I did my own *err* for a custom
> REPL and was surprised it wasn't already part of the environment just
> like *out*.
>
> On Sep 29, 9:24 am, Thorsen Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> I would love to see this change as well.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>> On Sep 28, 2008, at 1:28 PM, Stephen C. Gilardi wrote:
>>
>>> For a socket repl, I'd like to have error output sent across the
>>> wire as well as normal output. Clojure currently provides vars (*in*
>>> and *out*) that allow a thread to redirect input and output. I
>>> suggest a new var *err* which allows redirecting error output as
>>> well.
>>
>>> I can mostly do this without a change to Clojure by using my own
>>> alternative to Repl.java, but there are several instances in Clojure
>>> where System.err is accessed directly. If those were made indirect
>>> through a new *err*, one could reliably redirect all of *in*, *out*,
>>> and *err*.
>>
>>> Here's the *err* definition I suggest for RT.java:
>>
>>> final static public Var ERR =
>>> Var.intern(CLOJURE_NS, Symbol.create("*err*"),
>>> new PrintWriter(new
>>> OutputStreamWriter(System.err,
>>> UTF8), true));
>>
>>> (A PrintWriter with auto-flush.)
>>
>>> I think PrintWriter is a good choice because Throwable offers a
>>> method to dump stack traces to a PrintWriter.
>>
>>> --Steve
> >
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