On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:24 PM, 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.
>
> 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).

ctrl-c is the right way to exit under Windows.
Under UNIX, Linux and Mac OS X, I think ctrl-d is preferred.

> 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?

Right. See http://www.ociweb.com/mark/clojure/article.html#Databases.

-- 
R. Mark Volkmann
Object Computing, Inc.

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