Check out Chouser's error-kit in clojure-contrib. It borrows from the condition/restart system of Common Lisp.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:25 PM, levand <luke.vanderh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So, my project is reaching a sufficient level of complexity where I > really need good error tracking - when something goes wrong, I need to > know exactly what it was. > > I have programmed in Java for a long time, and my first instinct is to > simply use the try and throw special forms more or less as I would in > Java, even though the code in question is mostly pure Clojure without > directly utilizing any Java classes. I would simply throw whenever I > have an unexpected condition, and somewhere higher up the stack, where > it is easy to deal with it, I would log it and either try to recover > or present an error message. > > However, in most other areas, once I've finally grokked the functional > practice for just about anything, I much prefer it to the Java way of > life. > > So, I guess my question is, is using try/throw this way in Clojure > considered good Clojure code, or are they there mostly for Java > interop? Is there a more Lispy/functional way to do it? > > Many thanks, > -Luke > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
