Printer with meta :color

[Chemaclass]

What do you think about being able to define the color of the text by the Printer?
How hard would it be to add metadata to the print-str in order to specify some color?
We could provide a list of default colors like green, yellow, red, white, and black.

I've been thinking/trying something like this

(defn print-str
  "Same as print. But instead of writing it to an output stream,
  The resulting string is returned."
  @{:color color}
  [& xs]
  (let [len (count xs)
        printer (php/:: Printer (nonReadable color))
        pp |(php/-> printer (print $))]
    (case (count xs) 
    ... etc ...

But the output I get is Can not resolve symbol 'color'. I think I am using the metadata wrong 🤔

[jenshaase]

The meta data you mentioned is only available for def but not for defn.

Regarding color: Do you want colorful html output or colorful bash output?

[Chemaclass]

I was thinking more about "colorful bash output"

[Chemaclass]

This was solved by creating a new function println-colorful #202