A pr-str alternative that quotes lists?

2012-04-16 Thread kurtharriger
Frequently when working in the repl I want to take a datastructure and copy it into a test, however if that datastructure contains lists or more often lazy-seqences these are printed within unquoted (), so when I copy the result into my test I need to replace these lists with vectors or quote

Re: A pr-str alternative that quotes lists?

2012-04-16 Thread Stuart Sierra
As an alternative, you could quote the entire expression (you can quote anything, not just lists) when copying data structures into a test. -S -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: A pr-str alternative that quotes lists?

2012-04-16 Thread kurtharriger
On Apr 16, 10:45 am, Stuart Sierra the.stuart.sie...@gmail.com wrote: As an alternative, you could quote the entire expression (you can quote anything, not just lists) when copying data structures into a test. -S It never occurred to me to do that so I guess that works... As my

Re: A pr-str alternative that quotes lists?

2012-04-16 Thread Jay Fields
If you go down that path, I think vec (http://clojure.github.com/clojure/clojure.core-api.html#clojure.core/vec) is worth looking at. I've always understood that vec turns lists into vectors, but leaves vectors alone... which looks like what you are doing. On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1:02 PM,

Re: A pr-str alternative that quotes lists?

2012-04-16 Thread kurtharriger
On Apr 16, 11:07 am, Jay Fields j...@jayfields.com wrote: If you go down that path, I think vec (http://clojure.github.com/clojure/clojure.core-api.html#clojure.core/vec) is worth looking at. I've always understood that vec turns lists into vectors, but leaves vectors alone... which looks