[748] in Coldmud discussion meeting
Re: error_arg,error_str
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
< 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].
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-