Re: can't set up Clojure 1.2.1

2011-07-16 Thread Larry Travis
Phil: You ask whether, if I had found it, the following web page would have helped: http://dev.clojure.org/display/doc/Getting+Started+with+Emacs The answer: Definitely yes. The page advises me to use for bringing up a Clojure REPL java -cp path/to/clojure.jar clojure.main whereas the page

Re: can't set up Clojure 1.2.1

2011-07-16 Thread Sean Corfield
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Larry Travis wrote: > Thanks, Sergey.  The problem was indeed a classpath problem. The part of my > ignorance about Java that seems to cause me the most trouble is my ignorance > about Java classpaths. I think some Clojurians underestimate the > difficulties invol

Re: can't set up Clojure 1.2.1

2011-07-16 Thread Sergey Didenko
It was already mentioned recently that clojure.org looks outdated. May be we just need the main site to link to a few valuable proven community resources? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@go

Re: can't set up Clojure 1.2.1

2011-07-16 Thread Phil Hagelberg
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Larry Travis wrote: > Thanks, Sergey.  The problem was indeed a classpath problem. The part of my > ignorance about Java that seems to cause me the most trouble is my ignorance > about Java classpaths. I think some Clojurians underestimate the > difficulties invol

Re: can't set up Clojure 1.2.1

2011-07-16 Thread Sergey Didenko
I've updated the wiki [1], can't update the main site page[2]. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Clojure_Programming/Getting_Started#Running_Clojure http://clojure.org/getting_started -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group,

Re: can't set up Clojure 1.2.1

2011-07-15 Thread Larry Travis
Thanks, Sergey. The problem was indeed a classpath problem. The part of my ignorance about Java that seems to cause me the most trouble is my ignorance about Java classpaths. I think some Clojurians underestimate the difficulties involved in learning Clojure without knowing Java first. I wish

Re: can't set up Clojure 1.2.1

2011-07-15 Thread Sergey Didenko
Larry, it seems that the current folder "." is not in your default classpath. Either try "...-cp ./clojure.jar ..." or add "." into your default CLASSPATH. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@go

Re: can't set up Clojure 1.2.1

2011-07-14 Thread Larry Travis
Jonathan: Thanks. When the instructions said "the directory in which you expanded clojure.zip" I took that to mean the directory I was in when I expanded clojure.zip, not the directory that was created to hold the zip-file contents. --Larry On 7/14/11 10:05 PM, Jonathan Cardoso wrote: Wei

Re: can't set up Clojure 1.2.1

2011-07-14 Thread Jonathan Cardoso
Weird =S. That only happens when you're not on the folder containing the clojure.jar or when you try to call clojure from a different folder without setting the classpath. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send

can't set up Clojure 1.2.1

2011-07-14 Thread Larry Travis
I need to upgrade from the older version of Clojure I have been using so I downloaded Version 1.2.1 and followed these instructions from http://clojure.org/getting_started: In the directory in which you expanded clojure.zip, run: java -cp clojure.jar clojure.main This will bring up a simple r