The error messages are often the easiest the thing in the world to improve, even if you are new to contributing to Clojure. Most of the bad error messages are in the context of macroexpansion, so it is almost free (in performance terms) to add rigorous checks and error messages.
Take a look at assert-valid-fdecl at the bottom of core.clj, for example. To get better error reports for bad function declarations, just add more conditionals to this function. Patches welcome. *Specific* documentation of pain points also welcome. Stu > I agree with the point in discussion that the error messages in > Clojure are more of a problem than stack traces per se. > > Regards, > Shantanu > > On Aug 25, 5:02 pm, Nicolas Oury <nicolas.o...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I haven't had a lot of problems with stack-traces. >> >> I would be happy to have more information on the context, though. >> >> And maybe better reporting of exception occuring in a delayed context. >> (when forcing a seq and the excpetion occurs under a lazy.) >> In this situation I have sometimes fonud that the stacks where a bit >> srange, but I understand it is a well known problem with lazyness and >> difficult to solve. >> >> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Peter Schuller >> >> >> >> <peter.schul...@infidyne.com> wrote: >>> +1 on improving stack traces (though I haven't had experience with >>> clj-stacktrace, other than what I have read on this list). >> >>> -- >>> / Peter Schuller >> >>> -- >>> 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 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 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
