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Re:Joy of Clojure – In the Books by mark_l_watson on Thursday August 05, 2010 @06:41PM (#1579585)
Michael: I have been enjoying the MEAP while you have been writing it. My enthusiasm for Clojure is increasing and I like the book!

BTW, really off topic, but do you have any advice for making stack traces a little more useful (using Clojure 1.2)? This is still a sore spot for me.

Re:Joy of Clojure – In the Books by fogus on Thursday August 05, 2010 @07:23PM (#1579670)
Have you tried the functions in the clojure.stacktrace namespace? They are limited, but might get you some of what you want.
Re:Joy of Clojure – In the Books by technomancy on Thursday August 05, 2010 @09:43PM (#1579940)
The clj-stacktrace third-party lib does a much better job of this. I have hopes that it can be merged into Clojure in the future. (Not in 1.2 though; it's already in RC-stage.)
Re:Joy of Clojure – In the Books by mark_l_watson on Friday August 06, 2010 @10:31AM (#1581107)
Thanks Philip, that is good to know. Clojure is awesome, but it does still have some rough spots. BTW, I looked at your resume: you are a major contributor to open source projects (you have worked on 13 projects that I use), and I am not, so I should stop complaining if things are not yet just the way I like them :-)
Re:Joy of Clojure – In the Books by mark_l_watson on Sunday August 15, 2010 @11:10AM (#1605235)
After trying clj-stacktrace for a long while, I agree, this would be good to merge into Clojure.
Re:Joy of Clojure – In the Books by mark_l_watson on Thursday August 05, 2010 @08:07PM (#1579767)
I have tried that, and it is not really what I want. I believe that solving the stacktrace problem is a big job for the Clojure dev team, so patience is in order. That said, in doing Clojure development, this is the only thing that really bugs me.