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.)

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 :-)

After trying clj-stacktrace for a long while, I agree, this would be good to merge into Clojure.

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.