With the 1.2.0 release, there was an effort to get the most useful parts of contrib -- IO and string handling, in particular -- into Clojure proper, with the goal of making contrib unnecessary for everyday programming.
Hopefully, contrib can go back to being what it was meant to be: an experimental proving ground for new Clojure features. The contrib namespaces that overlap with Clojure proper are deprecated as of 1.2.0 and will be removed from future versions. If there's a function/macro there you want, I recommend writing it into your own applications and/or libraries. -S On Aug 27, 7:54 am, Daniel Janus <nath...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > so I finally got around to port my app to Clojure 1.2 and got confused > about the contrib shuffles. > > There's clojure.java.io and clojure.contrib.io. The docs on the latter > says that most of the functions defined in there are deprecated, and > one should use clojure.java.io instead. But clojure.java.io lacks some > of the very useful macros and function I'm using, like with-in-reader, > with-out-writer, slurp*, to name but a few; clojure.contrib.io does > have them, but it relies on its own primitives, instead of building on > clojure.java.io. So in a way I'm committed to using (if indirectly) > code that is already deprecated. What are the plans for contrib > development in this case? > > On a side note: shouldn't slurp* and slurp be unified somehow in a > future release? > > Also, contrib 1.2's str-utils contains the following confusing comment > at the very top: > > ;; DEPRECATED in 1.2: Promoted to clojure.java.string. Note that > ;; many function names and semantics have changed > > whereas there's no such thing as clojure.java.string. > > Daniel -- 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
