Steve Yegge v. Rich Hickey re: "Clojure just needs to start saying Yes"

Re:Steve Yegge v. Rich Hickey re: "Clojure just needs to sta... by pmjordan on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @05:11PM (#2468393)

I wouldn't call them useless, but I guess I'm used to C++, or worse, just a hex stack dump (yay, game consoles). Clojure mangles names somewhat to make them Java-compatible; you can easily do the reverse translation in your head. Still, this could be automated rather easily.

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Re:Steve Yegge v. Rich Hickey re: "Clojure just needs to sta... by VMG on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @06:40PM (#2468681)

As far as I remember clojure just spit out "This is not a function" or something like that, without any indication where the error occured.

There is a trace macro but it doesn't provide complete traces without explicitly adding every function you want to trace, which becomes tricky very soon. Manual tracing with printf()s like in non-functional languages isn't built-in either. There are half-baked macros for this on blogs if you google hard enough, but that is not the kind of thing that leaves a solid impression of a language.

Maybe I was just working in a non-clojuresque way.

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Re:Steve Yegge v. Rich Hickey re: "Clojure just needs to sta... by nickik on Thursday April 21, 2011 @02:54AM (#2469701)

I agree its a problem. I use the repl a lot and bild up the functions and debug with prints witch is ok because you can print anything (not like in VB). I know that they are working on it so I hope it will get better.

For me, however, its not a reason to quit.

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