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<HR><H2>Re: error_arg,error_str</H2>
<H3>daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thu May 25 10:53:20 1995
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From: brandon@avon.declab.usu.edu
To: coldstuff@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 25 May 95 08:47:01 -0600

&lt; Why were these removed?  I mean, error() was kept.  Why should we have
&lt;  to index into traceback() for the rest?  If I just want the error_str(),
&lt;  it seems wasteful to make the server generate an entire traceback().
&lt; 
&lt; Besides, error_str() looks a lot better than traceback()[1][2].

The information is there whether you snag it via traceback()[1][2] or
error_str().  As far as inefficiency goes, I can think of numerous more
inefficient things than that :)

It is a little more clunky, but error_[arg|str]() would just be redundant,
now that traceback() returns intelligent output.

-Brandon Gillespie-
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