I find the fact that "exit" and "quit" work in leiningen repls to be weird
- this doesn't follow the otherwise consistent rules of the language. What
about an exit function, something like

(defn exit
  ([] (exit 0))
  ([n] (System/exit n))

so that it's not an out of band special case input?

On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 2:38 PM Alan Thompson <clooj...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi - Just downloaded the new Clojure 1.9.0 package.  When I tried the repl
> I noticed that it doesn't respond to either `exit` or `quit` as one might
> expect from the lein repl:
>
> ~/cool/tools > clj
> Clojure 1.9.0
> user=> (+ 2 3)
> 5
> user=> exit
> CompilerException java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to resolve symbol:
> exit in this context, compiling:(NO_SOURCE_PATH:0:0)
> user=>
> user=> quit
> CompilerException java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to resolve symbol:
> quit in this context, compiling:(NO_SOURCE_PATH:0:0)
> user=> ^D
> ~/cool/tools >
>
>
> Lein repl for comparison:
>
> ~/tupelo > lein repl
> nREPL server started on port 37115 on host 127.0.0.1 - Clojure 1.9.0
> tupelo.core=> exit
> Bye for now!
>
> ~/tupelo >
>
> ~/tupelo > lein repl
> nREPL server started on port 40639 on host 127.0.0.1 - Clojure 1.9.0
> tupelo.core=> quit
> Bye for now!
> ~/tupelo >
>
>
> The new repl does terminate upon CRTL-D or CRTL-C, but many users will
> probably be confused that `quit` and `exit` are not accepted.
>
> Should I file a JIRA?
>
> Alan
>
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