2011/8/26 Lee Spector <lspec...@hampshire.edu> > > On Aug 25, 2011, at 9:27 PM, Ken Wesson wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Lee Spector <lspec...@hampshire.edu> > wrote: > >> 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. > > > > What about (System/getProperty "user.dir")? > > The value of user.dir depends on how the code is run. Now that I check I > see that if I run a lein repl in a project directory then it is set to that > directory, which is great. But if I run the code in some other way it may be > set to something different. For example, in clooj currently it's set to my > Downloads directory. I'll write to the clooj list to see if this can be > changed, but I also had problems with this sort of thing in > Eclipse/Counterclockwise and I'm wondering: Is it specified somewhere that > this should always be set to the project directory?
What kind of problem with Eclipse / CCW ? CCW uses a standard java launcher, so to say it uses the Eclipse Java Development Tools defaults, which are to create a launch configuration with the project's path as the current directory (of course you can change that by editing the associated launch configuration, later on : "Run > Run as ... > [choose the launch configuration, edit, save]") Cheers, -- Laurent > If I run a lein repl from a non-project directory then it's set to my home > directory, which makes some sense I guess, but why not the directory from > which the repl was launched? > > FWIW my larger point was just that all of this is less clear than it is in > many other languages, and that simple file I/O is therefore less simple than > one might hope. > > Thanks, > > -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 > -- 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
