On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:24 AM, mike.farn...@gmail.com
<mike.farn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Having attend Stu Halloway's talk on Clojure, at NFJS, I decided to
> download it and check it out. The language seems like a perfect fit
> for some database set manipulation that I do, and may need to do in
> the future.

Hi, Mike, and welcome!

> So, I downloaded clojure and started it up with the command:
> java -cp clojure.jar clojure.lang.Repl
>
> The docs indicate: "This will bring up a simple read-eval-print loop
> (REPL)."
>
> Is this truly an infinite loop?
>
> I tried a number of commands to exit.
> So, I just hit ctrl-C. (This is on Windows).

I had the same question in getting started. Someone told me to type
"(System/exit 0)" which will call the java.lang.System.exit method and
terminate the program. This seems to work for me.

> Anyhow, one other question, since clojure can access Java classes,
> I should be able to open a database connection and do all of the good
> DB things, right?

You can find the details here:
http://clojure.org/java_interop

> Thanks for your patience,
> Mike

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