I've been looking over our use of contrib in our large-ish project at work. About 90% of the invocations of contrib functions are I/O-related. I wonder if it would be a good idea to include a clojure.io namespace in Clojure itself. I've mentioned the idea a few times on IRC, and people seemed to be very much in favour.
I've prototyped this in the attached file. Most of the functions come from contrib's duck-streams library. I've taken everything from duck-streams except read-lines, file-str, make-parents, and pwd. read-lines was left out since using it will quite often result in a leak; closing resources inside a lazy-seq is almost always problematic. with-in-reader should be used instead. file-str was omitted because file from java-utils is much nicer. make-parents was omitted in favour of a new more general function, mkdir. pwd was omitted because the JVM doesn't have a notion of a "working directory" as most environments do. But it could be moved to contrib's java-utils if people are fond of it. I've also taken the file, delete-file, and delete-file-recursively functions from java-utils. I've added support for treating ~ as $HOME to file since that was present in duck-streams' file-str function. delete-file and delete-file-recursively are especially necessary if you ever write tests for functions that create files. relative-path-string and as-file were also taken from java-utils simply because they are used for the file function. I welcome discussion about this proposal. Do you think it's necessary? Are there any functions we should leave out? Any others we should promote from contrib? -Phil -- 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. 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
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