> What still scars me in terms of incorporating Clojure as a language of 
choice in more 
> complicated projects I work on in my other life, is the error reporting 
facility. The 
> errors sometimes might as well just say 'I just cannot run!'.  It would 
be nice if 
> there was some facility to approximately point to some s-exp or line 
numbers.

I agree that some of the stacktraces make it difficult to track down where 
an error is. I've lately dealt with that by writing a lot of :pre and :post 
assertions. That tends to narrow everything down very quickly. For 
instance: 

(defn get-count [request]
  {:pre [
         (= (type request) clojure.lang.PersistentHashMap)
         (= (type (get-in request [:params :item-type])) java.lang.String)
         ]
   :post [
          (= (type %) java.lang.Long)
          (or (pos? %) (zero? %))
          ]}
  (monger/get-count (get-in request [:params :item-type]))) 


At the top level of my app, I wrap everything in a try/catch and print out 
(clojure.stacktrace//print-stack-trace e). It's a bit of work, but once I 
wrote enough :pre and :post conditions they became sufficient to give me 
exact information about where any error occurred. 





On Friday, December 27, 2013 8:48:55 PM UTC-5, Guru Devanla wrote:
>
> Seconded on Error reporting. 
>
> I have been playing around with Clojure for sometime now and also 
> completed almost 150 of the 4clojure problems. What still scars me in terms 
> of incorporating Clojure as a language of choice in more complicated 
> projects I work on in my other life, is the error reporting facility. The 
> errors sometimes might as well just say 'I just cannot run!'.  It would be 
> nice if there was some facility to approximately point to some s-exp or 
> line numbers.
>
> May be I am missing some workflow used by other expert users. Can someone 
> throw more light on this.
>
>
> Thanks
> Guru
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Daniel <double...@gmail.com <javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> Best: Language & Community
>> Worst: Error Reporting
>>
>>
>> On Friday, December 27, 2013 3:17:48 PM UTC-6, Kelker Ryan wrote:
>>>
>>> In your opinion, what's the best, and what's the worst aspects of using 
>>> Clojure? 
>>>
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