Debugging Clojure

[André Thieme]

Hello group.

Maybe some of you heared of the Clojure programming language for the
JVM:
http://clojure.org/

It seems that JSwat will not allow me to set break points in source
codes that
don't have the .java extension. My files however end in .clj.
I also already tried to set the extensions in the options, but I was
not very
successful. So I would like to propose to add Clojure support to
JSwat :-)
This would include the ability to set breakpoints, and to have visual
feedback
about the line which will get executed next. By visual feedback I mean
the
background color of the current line. When I trick JSwat by connection
to my
JVM and renaming my file to .java I can set breakpoints, but get no
highlightning
of the current line.

Also it would be great if one could see the contents of variables of
functions.
JSwat lists them correctly, but can not find their contents and only
shows "null".
And one last very interesting thing would be the clojure typical
representation of
some data types. For example, a vector is printed as [1 2 3] in
Clojure.
In JSwat however I see a deeply nested tree of arrays of arrays of
things, and
I need to dive deeply into it to find my values.
A printed representation of vectors, lists, maps and sets and deftypes
would be
amazing.

Greetings,
André

[Nathan Fiedler]

In theory the source viewing and breakpoints should work as expected.
Are you using a recent version of JSwat? Which version of Clojure are
you running?

As for the variables display, making it show the logical contents of
collections is already in place but may not be working correctly with
the collections that Clojure is using.

In any case, if you really want to see better support for Clojure, you
will have to contribute code. I am so far behind on what needs to be
done that it will take until the end of the year to finish. It doesn't
help that I have two young children and we're trying to sell our
house. :)

Thanks

n

On Feb 16, 2010, at 1:29 AM, André Thieme
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