Ah, that's better. Thank you! Phil
Michał Marczyk <michal.marc...@gmail.com> writes: > Use pr-str: > > user=> (str (lazy-seq (list 1 2 3))) > "clojure.lang.LazySeq@7861" > user=> (pr-str (lazy-seq (list 1 2 3))) > "(1 2 3)" > > Cheers, > Michał > > > On 15 May 2014 16:29, Phillip Lord <phillip.l...@newcastle.ac.uk> wrote: >> >> >> I am trying to dump a representation of the contents of a list to file. >> I've recently changed how I generated this list and it's now lazy (not really >> by design more by side-effect, if you will excuse the poor choice of words). >> >> I was using >> >> (spit "file" (str lst "\n")) >> >> which worked quite nicely, but now it is failing. The problem is that I get a >> file full of "clojure.lang.LazySeq@" lines. The problem comes from LazySeq >> directly, as this demonstration with "range" shows. >> >> user> (str (list 1 2 3 4 5 )) >> "(1 2 3 4 5)" >> user> (str (range 4)) >> "clojure.lang.LazySeq@e1b83" >> user> (println (range 4)) >> (0 1 2 3) >> nil >> >> >> println is using prn and a multimethod to print out. In fact, >> clojure.lang.LazySeq doesn't implement toString, nor does it's super class. >> >> The best solution that I have come up with so far is to do >> >> (str (apply list (range 4))) >> >> I guess I can see why LazySeq doesn't implement toString by printing >> everything out, but is there a better way around my problem? >> >> Phil >> >> -- >> 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. -- Phillip Lord, Phone: +44 (0) 191 222 7827 Lecturer in Bioinformatics, Email: phillip.l...@newcastle.ac.uk School of Computing Science, http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/phillip.lord Room 914 Claremont Tower, skype: russet_apples Newcastle University, twitter: phillord NE1 7RU -- 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.
