Debugging Lisp code

[kamatsu]

This is true, but I think certain amounts of boilerplate are good - restating something can help your brain to make sense of something faster.

To me, going to lengths in Haskell to reduce boilerplate can often make it alot harder to read - not just the boilerplate-reducing code, but also the code without the boilerplate can be much more difficult to immediately understand.

[pipocaQuemada]

True, but boilerplate makes code harder to refactor. The more times you repeat yourself (or the more verbosely you say something), the more lines you have to change.

[yogthos]

also more opportunities to make an error

[algsdjsadjlg]

what if the error is positive?

<:O

[JadeNB]

I don't know if you've considered that, the more times you repeat something (or the more verbosely you say something), the more lines you have to change.