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<HR><H2>error_arg,error_str</H2>
<H3>daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thu May 25 02:43:26 1995
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Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 02:44:00 -0400
From: Quinn &lt;quinn@Access.Mountain.Net&gt;
To: coldstuff@MIT.EDU

Why were these removed?  I mean, error() was kept.  Why should we have
 to index into traceback() for the rest?  If I just want the error_str(),
 it seems wasteful to make the server generate an entire traceback().

Besides, error_str() looks a lot better than traceback()[1][2].

-Quinn
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