clojure file sounds good to me, but who am I? now, a JSON file .... that would sound good to a whole LOT of people . . . .and is compatible with many many languages ... even looks lispy. JSON is a good thing to get behind because it has a chance of killing xml.
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Mark McGranaghan <mmcgr...@gmail.com>wrote: > > + 1 for literal using literal Clojure data structures for configuration. > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Laurent PETIT <laurent.pe...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > And why not just use clojure source code literal datastructures as the > > persistence format ? > > > > With the pretty print function released by Tom Faulhaber, it's even > possible > > to painlessly write configuration back while keeping it clear (though not > > currently possible to maintain things such as comments, I fear), > > > > -- > > Laurent > > > > 2009/3/25 Korny Sietsma <ko...@sietsma.com> > >> > >> ooh - that's precisely why I was looking into duck-streams myself; > thanks > >> for that! > >> > >> Mind you, after a while in the Ruby world, I'd highly recommend looking > at > >> YAML for config files - it's human readable and fairly easily writeable, > and > >> lets you add arrays, nested structures, etc. fairly easily. > >> For simple config, and for Java friendliness, I can also see the value > of > >> properties files - I just keep working on java projects that have 200 > line > >> property files with hacks to handle nested structures and lists - it > gets > >> ugly real soon! > >> > >> - Korny > >> > >> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Rayne <disciplera...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> I wrote a simple, small configuration file parser and reader that uses > >>> the duck-streams library. You might find some of the examples > >>> interesting. > >>> > >>> http://paste.pocoo.org/show/109498/ > >>> > >>> On Mar 24, 11:20 am, e <evier...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > is there something as simple as this in clojure? > >>> > > >>> > whole python program: > >>> > > >>> > of = open(filename,"w") > >>> > of.write("hello") > >>> > of.close() > >>> > > >>> > I checked the api and looked around the wiki and google quickly and > saw > >>> > how > >>> > to use java's stuff to do it ... but, welll... > >>> > > >>> > I noticed "slurp" in the api for reading ... but only the whole file > at > >>> > once > >>> > (read() but no readline()). Is there something symmetrical for > writing > >>> > (outputting)? Is there a web page called "File IO" somewhere? > >>> > > >>> > Thanks. > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Kornelis Sietsma korny at my surname dot com > >> "Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part > >> that wonders what the part that isn't thinking > >> isn't thinking of" > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
