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 mdemare on Thursday April 21, 2011 @04:52AM (#2469842)

There are two warts - having to declare methods, and the obscure error message. A smart error handler could have seen that frobnicate had been defined further down, and told you exactly how to fix it. And it would be ok when that error handler didn't work in the REPL.

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Re:Steve Yegge v. Rich Hickey re: "Clojure just needs to sta... by Tiomaidh on Thursday April 21, 2011 @07:14AM (#2470173)

Agreed. Here's the exact error message I got:

  error: java.lang.Exception: Unable to resolve symbol: frobnicate in this context

So I really thought I'd misspelled it or messed up my namespace or just broken the compiler :/

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