On a related note I discovered CIDER’s profiling, so I can compare running time of solutions (taken from the gist linked with each problem in rich4clojure, or by going to the 4clojure.oxal.org site which has more solutions usually).
Feel free to add your own small discoveries, I’m putting this in the beginner category but it’s not necessarily just for beginners, more “beginner’s mind”
To blindly subdivide the problem, start with the your problem case and explicitly eval all the subpieces. This will often identify which subpiece is the problem, and you can work your way down until you have a problem that you can understand at a glance. Since foo uses only one name, n, I will temporarily def that name at the top level:
(def n 24)
Now I can evaluate every subform in foo, just by putting my cursor at the end of each form and sending that form to my REPL
This seems like a nice generic and quick version of CIDER’s debugger.
I recommend that blog post btw, I thought it was really well written.
def’ing the current/selected symbol with a value read from a prompt
defing a symbol/expression pair from a let binding
So when I have code like this inside a function:
(let [a (* b 32)
c (+ a b)]
(some-thing a c))
I can put my cursor on b, press ctrl+alt+space i and an input box opens in VS Code (Calva) so I can type any value and hit return. Then I can highlight a (* b 32) and press ctrl+alt+space d to create a def of that, then highlight c (+ a b) and press ctrl+alt+space d again, and then with the cursor on (some-thing a c) I can press ctrl+enter to evaluate that with a and c available.
