I find the fact that "exit" and "quit" work in leiningen repls to be weird

I agree. I’ve always used ctl-d to exit a Leiningen REPL or a Boot REPL – or 
pretty much any console program I’ve ever used. I’m only surprised when ctl-d 
_doesn’t_ work in such a program!

And, after all, both Leiningen and Boot give ctl-d as the first option for 
exiting a REPL:

                Exit: Control+D …

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From: clojure@googlegroups.com <clojure@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Justin 
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Sent: Saturday, December 9, 2017 2:55:17 PM
To: clojure@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Terminating 'clj' REPL session

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<mailto: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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