Not really true, most of my programs contain this function: (defn debug [x] (pprint x) x)
Now I can do this: (comp foo debug bar) Also, with some reader literal magic, I could write something to let me do this: (myfunc foo #dbg bar) On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 6:12 PM, David Jacobs <da...@wit.io> wrote: > Two more things: > > 1) printing is often not a viable option for lazily eval-ed sequences or > async processes -- the output gets jumbled! And believe me, when a new > Clojure dev sees that for the first time, he/she wants to quit. > 2) printing is terrible for elegant clojure code -- thing (comp f g h > (partial map z)) -- in order to figure out anything about dynamic data > flowing through, you have to break apart that composition or add a let > binding in one of those functions before returning a value. Both of those > involve a lot of friction. > > > On Thursday, May 30, 2013 5:00:13 PM UTC-7, raould wrote: >> >> for a long time haskell did not have a debugger. that sucked, imho. >> > -- > -- > 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.