On Jan 7, 7:03 pm, Nicolas Buduroi <nbudu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been doing a lot of Clojure lately and, of all thing,
> collection's laziness coupled with a REPL is what makes me loose the
> most time. I really love having laziness built-in by default and I'm a
> REPL-driven development addict, but sometimes I just loose minutes (if
> not hours) chasing imaginary bugs that in the end only were a misuse
> of laziness at the REPL. Still, I can't think of any way of fixing
> this problem other than writing on top of my monitor: "If it doesn't
> make sense it's certainly because of laziness". I wonder what other
> people think about this problem?
>
> P.S.: While writing this I just got an idea, but I'm not really sure
> it's a good one. Would it be wise to make the binding macro force
> evaluation of its body? That would be the most common mistake I make.
I find that if your code is functional, laziness works quite well
(except for the rare expensive function + chunking problem).

Perhaps your code isn't very functional? (your mention of binding
suggests that)

Brian

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