https://sourceforge.net/p/clojure/patches/Recent changes to patchesenSun, 29 Jun 2008 00:10:58 -0000https://sourceforge.net/p/clojure/patches/1/<div class="markdown_content"><p>Hi,<br /> I've been playing with Clojure this past week. The choices you made are really interesting(Immutability, etc). The language is really cool. One thing is off though...</p> <p>The current Clojure REPL has no history, no tab-completion, and no way of correcting input. This made it unusable for me. I cannot live without those features. Maybe Emacs can fix this... but I don't use emacs.</p> <p>This patch adds those features to REPL with minimal changes.</p> <p>It uses the JLine library. JLine provides the basic console handling functions. It was either that or java-readline. java-readline cannot be used because it links against GNU readline - which is under GPL. JLine is under the BSD license. It is 100% Java and doesn't have dependencies. JLine is used by important projects(i.e. JRuby). It was an easy choice.</p> <p>The patch only defines one new class: LispConsoleReader. Before the patch, the input was read and transformed into intermediate representation at the same time. This made adding more features to input handling very difficult.</p> <p>The solution I adopted was to separate the two steps. The input is now read all at once by LispConsoleReader. Then that input is fed to LispReader to be transformed into intermediate representation.</p> <p>There might be some issues remaining.</p> <p>Can you review my patch and merge it? That would be great.</p> <p>Best regards,</p></div>Yann N. DauphinSun, 29 Jun 2008 00:10:58 -0000https://sourceforge.net65cb1ab178c2f92bb7a9d04f70bb7d54195d1689