[CLJ-1129] Invalid ns macro can yield a difficult to trace exception

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 01:09:27 -0600

I inadvertently stripped off the namespace part of my ns macro, so that it was (ns (:use .... Clearly a user error, but an easy one. However, the result (from the REPL or the AOT compiler) was not ideal:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: clojure.lang.PersistentList cannot be cast to clojure.lang.Named
	at clojure.core$name.invoke(core.clj:1489)
	at clojure.core$root_resource.invoke(core.clj:5210)
	at clojure.core$load_one.invoke(core.clj:5227)
	at clojure.core$compile$fn__4895.invoke(core.clj:5426)
	at clojure.core$compile.invoke(core.clj:5425)
	at clojuresque.tasks.compile$main$fn__64.invoke(compile.clj:23)
	at clojuresque.cli$with_command_line_STAR_.invoke(cli.clj:92)
	at clojuresque.tasks.compile$main.doInvoke(compile.clj:6)
	at clojure.lang.RestFn.applyTo(RestFn.java:137)
	at clojure.core$apply.invoke(core.clj:601)
	at clojure.lang.Var.invoke(Var.java:419)
	at clojuresque.Driver.main(Driver.java:39)

The problem here is that there is no indication of what file was being loaded and compiled at the time of the error. Since I was in the middle of refactoring a big swath of code, I had some work to do to track down which file I had mangled.

I would like to see a little more logging to the System/err to identify what resource file was being read and compiled by the compiler at the time of the exception.

Clojure JIRA

[CLJ-1129] Invalid ns macro can yield a difficult to trace exception