Here's one:
user=> {:a 1 :b}
#<CompilerException java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException (REPL:3)>
Instead how about a parse error exception that specifically says
something like, "Map literal requires an even number of forms."
Thanks,
Jeff
On Feb 8, 3:01 pm, Stuart Halloway <stuart.hallo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This conversation began on Twitter [1] but I want to continue it on the
> mailing list as it may be of broader interest.
>
> The core team is very interested in improving error messages, and relatively
> less interested in more code to manipulate stack traces, for the following
> reasons:
>
> (1) The language sits at the bottom, and must solve the problems nobody
> higher up can solve. Error messages are created at the point of an error, and
> if the language gets it wrong you may not have the information to fix it
> later. OTOH, any old library code can reduce a stacktrace.
>
> (2) Better error messages are easy to implement [2]. Most oddball errors are
> in macroexpansion, so there is no runtime cost to doing extra work to improve
> error messages. These can be implemented as pure functions, so even a
> relative beginner could contribute a patch.
>
> (3) The clojure.repl/pst macro in 1.3 already provides better control of
> stack trace spewage at the REPL.
>
> Please let us know when you get a misleading error message from a
> macroexpansion, so we can make it better. Or contribute a patch along the
> lines of [2].
>
> Thanks,
> Stu
>
> Stuart Halloway
> Clojure/corehttp://clojure.com
>
> [1]http://twitter.com/marick/statuses/33760838540070912
> [2]https://github.com/clojure/clojure/commit/d694d6d45fb46195ae4de01aab9...
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