My recommendation would be to not write scripts at all. Instead, write a "-main" function for your namespace and launch your application at the Java command line in the usual way. In general, I think distributed libraries should never have top-level side effects.
-Stuart Sierra On Jan 9, 2:00 am, lpetit <laurent.pe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9 jan, 07:54, lpetit <laurent.pe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 9 jan, 04:03, Stuart Sierra <the.stuart.sie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Later on, if I call (load) (from a fresh clojure environment) from the > > > > compiled classes, the top level (println)s are not executed, since not > > > > compiled. > > > > Yes, that's the expected behavior. "compile" only saves the things > > > defined in the namespace. > > > Well, I easily understand that it is the compiled behaviour. And in > > the same time, I don't feel it "right" that loading the same lib from > > source file or from compiled files can have different results. > > Because then, it's not correct to say that we can interchange a source > version and a compiled version of a lib. > So maybe it should be expressed that libs should not do anything but > define things in the namespace (maybe it's also stated in the doc and > I skipped it, if so, my apologies). > -> And that could be a distinction between libs and plain namespaces. > And in that case, do you think it could be interesting to mark the > namespace with a "is-a-lib" meta-data to (for example) : > - prevent the compiler to compile it by default (or emit a warning, or > compile only if some :force flag is set) > - allow automatic tools to explicitly see the difference between a lib > and a PON (plain old namespace) > > Thanks in advance for your answers, > > -- > Laurent --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
