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 … Sean Corfield -- (970) FOR-SEAN -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ________________________________ From: clojure@googlegroups.com <clojure@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Justin Smith <noisesm...@gmail.com> 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 -- 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<mailto: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<mailto:clojure%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.