They work rather differently. duck-streams/file treats all arguments as strings, so (file "foo" "bar") => <File "foobar"> I wrote it that way because I often want to construct a file name like (file base "." extension)
java-utils/file is closer to the Java File interface, by assuming that each argument is a separate directory name. (file "foo" "bar") => <File "foo/bar"> I don't see an obvious way of combining them. java-utils/file is more efficient because it doesn't have to do any string manipulation. My opinion? java-utils/file is more Java-like; duck-streams/file is more Ruby-like. Neither is particularly Clojure-like, that would just be (File. "foobar"). -Stuart Sierra On Apr 5, 5:30 pm, James Reeves <weavejes...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I'd like it if they were combined. You could then use (file "foo/bar") > or (file "foo" "bar"). > > - James > > On Apr 5, 9:25 pm, Stuart Halloway <stuart.hallo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Doh! Missed that. The duck-streams and java-utils versions of file > > have overlapping but disjoint functionality. Other-Stuart, I can take > > a look at combining these, or we can just leave them separate for now. > > > --Stuart > > > > On Apr 5, 5:07 pm, Stuart Halloway <stuart.hallo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Never worry about "foo" vs. (File. "foo") again! > > > >> (doc file) > > >> ------------------------- > > >> clojure.contrib.java-utils/file > > >> ([arg] [parent child] [parent child & more]) > > >> Returns a java.io.File from string or file args. > > > >> Notes: > > > >> (1) You will need to build contrib from source to see this. > > > >> (2) This function is a slight generalization of a similar function in > > >> Compojure. James, I am hoping to convince you to make Compojure > > >> depend > > >> on contrib and start using a standard set of utils. What do you > > >> think? > > > > There's actually a file in clojure.contrib.duck-streams that's pretty > > > similar to this. In fact, I removed the file function from Compojure > > > because it clashed with duck-streams :) > > > > - James --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
