gistfile1.clj

(defmacro ?
  "A useful debugging tool when you can't figure out what's going on:
  wrap a form with ?, and the form will be printed alongside
  its result. The result will still be passed along."
  [val]
  `(let [x# ~val]
     (prn '~val '~'is x#)
     x#))

Hmmm, there something like that named 'spy' in clojure contrib, AFAIK

I like '~' - reminds me of the good old days doing macro-writing macros in Common Lisp :)

Yes, spy does this, but imo not as well. It uses (str '~expr) for one thing, instead of pr-str, which makes it hard to tell exactly what types things are. It also outputs to the debug log, which requires that you configure logging for your program. Most of the time I don't want to bother with that.

Right. And I also tend to rewrite such a little function, since it's even easier than trying to remember in what clojure contrib it lives, grab the dependency if I don't have it yet ... such a little function could maybe have its place somewhere in clojure core ? clojure.core, or clojure.repl ?