Would a message such as "use CRTL-D to exit" be appropriate?  Right now it
is very bare.  Maybe this?

~ > clj
Clojure 1.9.0 (use ^D to exit)
user=>
~ >

Alan

On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Sean Corfield <s...@corfield.org> wrote:

> 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
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>
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> *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> 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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