Re:REPL Debugging: No Stacktrace Required (2017)
by jcadam on Monday March 09, 2020 @08:27AM
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When I started learning/using Clojure, I didn't use the REPL much and kept on working in the traditional way: Write code, compile, test. Repeat until it works.
It took some time to break my old habits and start using the REPL. It's unfortunately made me a bit lazier writing unit tests :), as I can hammer on a piece of code until I know it works - and small, deterministic functions tend to not break once you get them working. So much of my test code is integration tests.
Nowadays, when I have to work in Java (or Scala, Javascript, Python, etc), I seriously miss the Clojure REPL. Though Clojure (and Lisp in general) has definitely affected the way I write code in other languages.
It took some time to break my old habits and start using the REPL. It's unfortunately made me a bit lazier writing unit tests :), as I can hammer on a piece of code until I know it works - and small, deterministic functions tend to not break once you get them working. So much of my test code is integration tests.
Nowadays, when I have to work in Java (or Scala, Javascript, Python, etc), I seriously miss the Clojure REPL. Though Clojure (and Lisp in general) has definitely affected the way I write code in other languages.