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.
>>
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