I haven't had time to really investigate it, but I was planning to delve
into dire for exactly that problem.

https://github.com/MichaelDrogalis/dire

On Tuesday, 26 November 2013, Stefan Kamphausen wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> logging is a side-effect and I try to keep it out of the functional parts
> of my code.
>
> But even for the parts where I want to introduce logging I find that it
> renders code less readable.
>
>
> As an example, say you've got an 'if-let' somewhere
>
> (if-let [a (do-something-non-trivial-with-some-local-args)]
>   (make-use-of-a)
>   (return-a-reasonable-default))
>
> That piece of code is concise, readable, nicely indented, etc.  However,
> when logging comes along, it becomes ugly quickly, at least to my eye:
>
>
> (if-let [a (do-something-non-trivial-with-some-local-args)]
>   (do (log/debug "got a reasonable a:" a)
>       (make-use-of-a))
>   (do (log/warn "using a dangerous default")
>       (return-a-reasonable-default)))
>
> I wonder, how you deal with such situations.  Do you get rid of all those
> do's, e.g. with a 'logged' ('debugged', 'warned', etc) macro which takes
> some logging args and a body in any way? Do you wrap functions in
> tracing-like logging entities and log e.g. at the level of '
> do-something-non-trivial-with-some-local-args'? Or are you just happy
> with the 'do'?
>
> The only other thread I could find on this list which discussed related
> issues was
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/clojure/B2Wo5Oe1OrI/Y_eznCx3R7YJ and I
> will think a bit about Herwig's reader tag approach.
>
>
> Regards,
> stefan
>
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