One technique I've used in the past for debugging is to open a UDP port as a log stream and print messages to that stream. These messages can be read at any time by a telnet connection to that port.
Since UDP packets that are not read just get dropped this is equivalent to writing to /dev/null except when you want to watch what is begin logged. Since the values are printed they don't have to be kept. You can even keep this live in a production environment for dumping things like statistics. At Worldcom I used this to put up a "live console". It might be possible to make a DEFTRACE macro to replace the DEFN which prints the arguments and return values to the UDP port as in > enter (FOO "asdf" 3 'thing) < exit (FOO 6) When you connect to the UPD port you'll see an active trace, including the arguments. If you set up a netcat listener on the port you can dump the stream to a file and see the execution. If you're really slick you can open a slime-like port to dump the trace to an emacs buffer. Tim Daly -- -- 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.
