On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Daniel Werner
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Jonas,
>
> Thanks for stepping forward and publishing your work. From the short
> glance I had at it already, your code seems very low-level (probably
> for performance), but sound. The only thing that, compared to other
> CSV libraries I've used, I miss somewhat is explicit support for
> "dialects". While the developer can set the separator, quote and
> newline chars herself, it would be nice if there were a number of pre-
> made maps for commonly used CSV dialects, e.g. Excel, whose values can
> just be passed to the read and write functions.
>
> To give an example, Python's approach is quite simple yet effective.
> Their use of class inheritance to define new dialects that are similar
> to old ones would translate well to Clojure maps, by assoc'ing or
> merge'ing the changes in.
>
> http://docs.python.org/library/csv.html#csv-fmt-params

I'll take a look at how python does things. Dialects sounds like a good idea.

I have now added the lib to clojars so it should be ready for use with
either leiningen or maven.

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