So I've been thinking that I really should learn Lisp. A nice programming language unlike any other I have seen. Clojure is one dialect of Lisp which is targeted at the JVM and .NET CLR. A quick search of the Youtubes revealed a decent video introducing Clojure with a practical example and a quick touch on Leningen.
I started going along with the video a couple days ago when I hit a snag. Errors about not finding files, no such namespace etc. The versions of the libraries I was using were quite old, was that the issue? Has the syntax changed?. The answer is a lot more depressing.
(defroutes (GET "/" request (homepage request)) (GET "/:id" [id] (redirect id)))
Can you see the issue? I coudn't.
(defroutes myroutes (GET "/" request (homepage request)) (GET "/:id" [id] (redirect id)))
I missed a single argument from (defroutes). Literally could have put any old ascii string in there and it would have worked.
2.
Sodding.
Days.
Remember kids, when copying code from a video, make sure to get it all.
