On Oct 6, 8:37 pm, "Stephen C. Gilardi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rich,
>
> Would you accept a patch to implement this?
>
Sure - thanks.
Rich
>
> 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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