Why would a break function in clojure the language not be considered, a-la common-lisp?
On Friday, 8 November 2013 09:31:55 UTC+10, Lee wrote: > > > On Nov 7, 2013, at 5:48 PM, Alex Miller wrote: > > > When you say "hit an error", I'm assuming you mean "clojure throws an > exception" and not "hit a breakpoint in a debugger" or something else. > > Yes -- I mean "clojure throws an exception." > > > > > I don't think there is one place where we could generically attach > locals info to a thrown exception. The JVM debugging interface (JVMTI - > http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/jvmti/index.html) > can do an awful lot of things (including arbitrary class bytecode > transformation) so I would guess it's possible to build a java agent that > could do this (or to modify the Compiler to inject the right code at > compile time). Sounds like a fun project, but probably non-trivial. > > Too bad... unless someone wants to have that fun and then share it with > the rest of us :-). It still strikes me as really odd that such basic and > clearly desirable functionality, available forever in other environments, > should be so hard to come by. > > -Lee -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
