How do I get line numbers for expressions "sent" to the REPL

[kxygk]

My question was posted here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/11q6lt8/new_clojurians_ask_anything_march_13_2023/
I have a few other questions there - but they're more Emacs issues I think (maybe)

With both cider-eval-defun-at-point and cider-eval-buffer I often get some garbage about the error being in a lambda. I get that in effect the code is getting copy and pasted into the REPL so the original code location is lost - how do I work around this? Should I prefer using some other CIDER functions for executing code?

It ends up really tripping me up to the whole REPL-driven-development (ie. working just within the file-buffer without touching the REPL window)