I'd like to second this request. It's pretty necessary to have an exit code for any type of scripting.
Of course, you can always use (System/exit result-code), but a return value is "prettier" to me. On Apr 5, 5:15 pm, "John D. Hume" <duelin.mark...@gmail.com> wrote: > Earlier today I was surprised to notice that some test-is unit tests I > was running from Ant failed, but it still reported BUILD SUCCESSFUL. I > figured I'd forgotten to include failonerror="true" in the java task, > but it was there. So I played around and found that > > $ java -cp clojure.jar clojure.main -e "garbage" > java.lang.Exception: Unable to resolve symbol: garbage in this context > (NO_SOURCE_FILE:0) > at clojure.lang.Compiler.analyze(Compiler.java:4330) > .......etc > $ echo $? > 0 > > Likewise with a script. This seems like a bug. Would it be acceptable > to change clojure.main/main as follows? > > Currently it does this: > (try > .... the good stuff ... > (catch Exception e > (.printStackTrace e *err*))) > (flush)) > > Instead I'd like it to: > (try > .... the good stuff ... > (flush) > (catch Exception e > (flush) > (throw e))) > > Basically just let Java do what Java does when an unhandled exception > is thrown (after flushing *out* to keep from confusing people). I know > a lot of what's in clojure.main is meant to be useful for embedding in > larger programs, but it doesn't look to me like the main function is > intended for that. > > Thanks. > -hume. > --http://elhumidor.blogspot.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
