On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Larry Travis <tra...@cs.wisc.edu> wrote:
> I have been solving Clojure problems now for many months and can no longer > exactly be considered a Clojure NOOB, but I still have an awful lot to > learn about Clojure. One thing that has caused difficulties from the > beginning is that I don't know Java and don't know how to exploit the Java > eco-structure -- and thus I can't figure out how to use all the inter-op > potential, and I have a hard time interpreting Java-oriented error messages. > > For example, on doing a particular load-file I get this very useful error > message: > > java.lang.Exception: Unmatched delimiter: ] (source-file:323) > > > But my error messages are more likely to look like this: > > java.lang.Exception: Unsupported binding form: (quote symb) > (NO_SOURCE_FILE:5045) > > > Where does the 5045 come from and what does it mean? Is there some way I > could manage and load my defn files, or manage my evaluations of defn > expressions in the REPL, so that such error messages would always give me a > useful line number like the 323 in the first example? > > Thanks for your help. > --Larry If you want accurate error locations make sure to recompile the whole file instead of evaluating expressions one at a time. The tools could of course improve here by setting the line number explicitly when evaluating expressions one at a time. David -- 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. 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
