I have no experience with gradual typing, but I'd love to try it. It seems there are many situations where dynamic typing just makes things easier than in a language like Haskell, however I long for their ability to verify correctness at compile time.
Vince On Mar 29, 10:49 am, André Thieme <splendidl...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 29 Mrz., 01:55, Glen Stampoultzis <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, I've been really enjoying getting to know clojure. It's an awesome > > language that has got me very interested in learning more. One thing that > > hasn't left me impressed is the error reporting. > > [...] > > There are a few things wrong here and with clojure error reporting in > > general: > > > 1. I'm not getting a line number for some reason. > > 2. I don't get any indication what the nature of the error is. > > 3. I get a big (nested) stack trace that has more to do with clojure > > compiler internals than my program. > > I would like to make a comment that does not directly talk > about your specific issue, but about error reporting in > general. > I would love to hear more opinions about Gradual Typing for > Clojure. That would allow the compiler to catch errors before > the program is actually run. Your example that you gave at some > other point in this thread could have been caught during > compilation. > Please have a look at this > thread:http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/7a48f48e4... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
