On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Paul Richards <paul.richa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm new to Clojure, and I've found it possible to make Clojure scripts
> executable by adding '#!/usr/bin/env clj' as the first line (and
> 'chmod +x' of course).
>
> E.g. My sample script:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env clj
>
> (println "Hello World")
>
> This seems like a very convenient way to dabble with Clojure, yet I
> have not seen it suggested anywhere.  Is this method discouraged?

Since there's no standard shell launcher for clj[1], you don't really
have a good idea of how it will work, especially when you need to use
more than one file. Once classpath issues come into play things become
a lot more complicated. You would need something like Hashdot for
that:

http://hashdot.sourceforge.net/

-Phil

[1] According to a ticket in assembla, this may be fixed post 1.2,
which I'm glad to see.

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