Gary, You were right with your initial reply. Sorry I did not get it. Thanks for your help in understanding this.
On Nov 22, 1:58 pm, Gary Trakhman <gary.trakh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Also I think this line doesn't actually do anything: (Class/forName > "foo.bar") > > It will effectively just ask the classloader to load the class. You > removed more than the eval in your referenced code, you removed the code > that did anything. That code needs to be there. It's eval'd because it's > not guaranteed to be compilable for projects without commons-logging in > their classpath. > > (defn cl-factory > "Returns a Commons Logging-based implementation of the > LoggerFactory > protocol, or > nil if not available." > [] > (try > (Class/forName "foo.bar") > ; eval removed > (catch Exception e nil))) -- 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
