Good summary. Let's keep them separate until we feel pain. - Stuart Halloway
> 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
