Hi Alexandru,
As Andy pointed out there's the emacs+Ritz option which has quite a few
features, but if the main thing you want to do is inspect the locals and
the current stack trace, you could use a macro as the one presented in the
book The Joy of Clojure <http://joyofclojure.com/> (Chapter 8: Macros).
The macro that's presented there is called *break*. What it does is it
traps the existing locals in a Clojure map when the macro is called and
uses their values to *eval* the forms you input in the *break*ing repl. The
version in the book uses *clojure.main/repl* with some options to cange
the prompt, the reader and the evaler.
Here's the full code for the break macro almost the same as in the book, I
added the *:locals* "command" that will print the map of locals.
(defn readr [locals prompt exit-code]
(let [input (clojure.main/repl-read prompt exit-code)]
(if (= input :quit)
exit-code
(do
(when (= input :locals)
(println locals))
input))))
(defn contextual-eval [ctx expr]
(eval
`(let [~@(mapcat (fn [[k v]] [k `'~v]) ctx)]
~expr)))
(defmacro local-context []
(let [symbols (keys &env)]
`(zipmap '~symbols (list ~@symbols))))
(defmacro break []
`(clojure.main/repl
:prompt #(print "debug=> ")
:read (partial readr (local-context))
:eval (partial contextual-eval (local-context))))
(defn f [x]
(let [y 1
z 2]
(break)))
; (f 3)
; :locals
; :quit
HTH,
J
On Monday, November 11, 2013 2:33:44 PM UTC+8, Alexandru Nedelcu wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm a rookie. Having worked with Python and Ruby, I love how in those
> languages you can simply do something like:
>
> import pdb; pdb.set_trace()
>
> Or in Ruby:
>
> require 'ruby-debug'; debugger
>
> So is there any way in Clojure to pause execution and open some sort
> of debugger / REPL in the console with the current stack-trace and
> local vars visible?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Alexandru Nedelcu
> www.bionicspirit.com
>
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