> > The big syntax macro cases like ns or let are way past the "average" spec. > ... I don't think it's fair to judge the general performance of spec's > errors on just those use cases.
It might be true that these macros are larger than usual, but they're also the cases that everyone will encounter all the time, particularly new users trying to figure out the language syntax. On 23 August 2016 at 12:55, Alex Miller <a...@puredanger.com> wrote: > > On Monday, August 22, 2016 at 7:43:53 PM UTC-5, Colin Fleming wrote: >> >> I agree that the ability to get a machine-readable parse failure is very >> important for tooling. However I feel very strongly that the error messages >> that are printed by default on macro validation failures should be easily >> understandable, and the current ones are not. If we completely punt to >> tooling for this, firstly users will receive different (and different >> quality) error messages depending on the tool they're using, and anyone >> using plain vanilla Clojure will not get good errors at all. >> > > I largely agree.. > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
