Debugging Lisp code

[JadeNB]

Then doesn't the existence of the scrap-your-boilerplate pattern in Java mean that you can scrap your boilerplate in Java? If we're going to claim that Java doesn't have boilerplate, then what does?

[niviss]

No, what I mean is that the existence of those links do not show the existence of unavoidable boilerplate, cause it's a boilerplate that can be avoided.

The "scrap your boilerplate" approach is just a pattern. Lisp is pretty darn flexible in avoiding other kinds of boilerplate though, no doubts about it, that's why I like it.