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<HR><H2>Re: error_arg,error_str</H2>
<H3>daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thu May 25 11:52:49 1995
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Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 11:52:36 -0400
From: Quinn &lt;quinn@Access.Mountain.Net&gt;
To: brandon@avon.declab.usu.edu, coldstuff@MIT.EDU

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

Yes, and I'd agree--if error() had been removed.  But error() is
 still there, even though it's the same as traceback()[1][1]. So
 why get rid of the others?

(It is the same as traceback()[1][1], isn't it?)

-Quinn

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