Yes, exactly. I'm going to check that out.

Thanks Shantanu
Tim



On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Shantanu Kumar <kumar.shant...@gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> On Jul 3, 7:39 pm, Timothy Washington <twash...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm using pre / post assertions quite a bit in a project I'm building.
> And I
> > too would love to see better or custom error messages for each assertion.
>
> That should be possible with a macro. For example, I use this:
>
> https://bitbucket.org/kumarshantanu/clj-miscutil/src/acfb97c662d9/src/main/clj/org/bituf/clj_miscutil.clj#cl-1009
>
> Maybe you need something like this(?):
>
> (defmacro verify-my-arg
>  "Like assert, except for the following differences:
>  1. does not check for *assert* flag
>  2. throws IllegalArgumentException"
>  [err-msg arg]
>  `(if ~arg true
>     (throw (IllegalArgumentException. ~err-msg))))
>
> Then use it thus:
>
> (defn foo [m]
>  {:pre [(verify-my-arg "m must be a map" (map? m))]}
>  (println m))
>
> Regards,
> Shantanu
>
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