Re: Attempt at making stacktraces more readable

Fredrik <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.erlang.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 05/05/2013 03:45 PM, Anthony Ramine wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When an error isn't caught by a catch expression, the VM sends the faulty stacktrace as a string with a small message to the error logger. As it is already a string representation and not the stacktrace itself, the result may as well be readable and human-friendly. This is an attempt at making exactly this.
>
> I have no idea how this will be received by the community, I'm just trying to spark a discussion about how we could improve the way stacktraces are currently printed.
>
> To choose a format, Rosetta Code was my main source of inspiration [1].
>
> 	git fetch https://github.com/nox/otp.git better-error-reports
>
> 	https://github.com/nox/otp/compare/erlang:maint...better-error-reports
> 	https://github.com/nox/otp/compare/erlang:maint...better-error-reports.patch
>
> Regards,
>
> [1] http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Stack_traces
>
Hello Anthony,
Your patch has been sent to be reviewed since it's significant changes 
to the stacktrace. You will be updated of the outcome.

-- 

BR Fredrik Gustafsson
Erlang OTP Team

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