I did a fair amount of programming in C# before switching to Clojure. I noticed an interesting fact: the more lazy (as in using lazy-seqs) and functional my code became, the more erratic the was the flow of execution. It's my personal opinion, that as these features are used more and more in a program, the harder it would be to get any sort of useful information out of a debugger.
For instance, look at the implementation of for, map or Clojure's reducers. I'd really hate to step through that code with a debugger. While sometimes I feel a debugger would be nice, I think they are much more useful in imperative languages than they are in functional languages like Clojure. Timothy Baldridge On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Warren Lynn <wrn.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > > May I suggest that as useful as your strategies are, they cannot replace a > debugger? Let's be clear about our logic before claiming "it is not much > needed". Maybe YOU really don't need it, but that is different from > claiming it is not needed. > > > A debugger as good as it is cannot replace the 4 first strategies. >> >> Luc P. >> >> >> -- > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- “One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.” (Robert Firth) -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
