I added a note on the ticket you created that perhaps the docstring
could be expanded to make this usage clearer.
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:26 PM, AtKaaZ <atk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> oh great, that's what I was missing and it makes sense now and that strikes
> me like it's idiomatic clojure coding to do that and that it's also
> unwritten/expected-of-us-to-know-this
>
> => (clojure.java.io/delete-file "c:\\1.123" :not-deleted)
> true
> => (clojure.java.io/delete-file "c:\\1.123" :not-deleted)
> :not-deleted
>
> Thank you for this
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Sean Corfield <seancorfi...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> You can call (clojure.java.io/delete-file some-file :not-deleted) and
>> you'll get true if the delete succeeds and :not-deleted if it fails.
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 1:32 PM, AtKaaZ <atk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi, does anyone see anything wrong with this?
>> >
>> > => (source clojure.java.io/delete-file)
>> > (defn delete-file
>> > "Delete file f. Raise an exception if it fails unless silently is
>> > true."
>> > {:added "1.2"}
>> > [f & [silently]]
>> > (or (.delete (file f))
>> > silently
>> > (throw (java.io.IOException. (str "Couldn't delete " f)))))
>> > nil
>> >
>> > If you don't already, see below:
>> >
>> > => (.delete (q/newClass java.io.File "a.tx1"))
>> > false
>> > => (.delete (q/newClass java.io.File "c:\\a.tx1"))
>> > true
>> >
>> > => (clojure.java.io/delete-file (new java.io.File "c:\\a.tx1"))
>> > IOException Couldn't delete c:\a.tx1 clojure.java.io/delete-file
>> > (io.clj:425)
>> > => (clojure.java.io/delete-file (new java.io.File "c:\\a.tx1") true)
>> > true
>> > => (clojure.java.io/delete-file (new java.io.File "c:\\a.tx1") 1)
>> > 1
>> >
>> > Yep, I do need it to return the true/false status from .delete
>> > fix?
>> >
>> > => *clojure-version*
>> > {:major 1, :minor 5, :incremental 0, :qualifier "RC14"}
>> >
>> >
>> >
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