While refactoring a relatively simple Clojure code to use a map instead of a vector, I have wasted perhaps a few hours due to essentially type errors. I want to share the experience and my thoughts about possible solutions since I encounter this problem quite often. I should mention that it is quite likely that it is more a problem (an opportunity? :-)) with me rather than the language, namely with the way I write and (not) test it.
The core of the problem is that I write chains of transformations based on my