On Aug 25, 2011, at 2:00 PM, Terje Dahl wrote: > Great question. And great answer. > Seriously! I did not know it could be that easy.
Unfortunately it's not actually that easy, at least for the OP's question of reading from and writing to (presumably local) files. While slurp and spit are beautifully elegant it's not so elegant to tell slurp how to find the file you want it to slurp. In many other languages/environments there's a concept of the working directory or project directory, relative to which you can specify locations. In Clojure you have to deal with the classpath, outside of the language proper, and many of the common ways of running Clojure programs handle this differently. I don't know if there's a good, general solution to this, but for me (both as a programmer and especially as a teacher) it is definitely a pain point. In my current configuration (in Mac OS X running clooj -- which is really shaping up beautifully, BTW) spit with a simple file name seems to go to my Downloads directory. I don't know why or how to change it. Much worse is the problem with interactive console-based I/O, which is often one of the things that a beginner will often want to play with to get the feel of a language; many of my students try to write a simple text adventure game for their first projects, and with Clojure I basically have to tell them to forget about it. (If you don't know what I'm talking about see the exchanges here: http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/9261480fbea72ead/4ec300e9cc76a184?lnk=raot). There are ways to make console-based I/O work , but it fails in ugly ways in many setups. -Lee -- 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
