Re: Error messages

["Thiago L." <fakedme@...>]

On 29/05/2014 23:31, Thiago L. wrote:
> On 29/05/2014 23:30, Josh Simmons wrote:
> > On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Thiago L. <fakedme@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > As you all know, chunks take a chunk name string thingy, and it can be
> > > "=<whatever>" if you want to customize the chunk name on error 
> > > messages and
> > > stuff... What if you could make a function handle error message 
> > > displaying?
> > > Something like...
> >
> > You already can, just at the call site not the load site.
> >
> > http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#pdf-xpcall
> > http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#lua_pcall
> Line numbers? stack traceback? etc?
Also pcall/xpcall requires you to "throw" the error again to do error 
formatting, so this thing would basically be a bit more awesome... (Not 
sure if the BRs care about awesomeness... I guess I could talk to them 
IRL one day...)