Trying to get a NN code going

[Fergus Henderson]

On 01-Mar-1999, Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@atlas.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
> What I *do* expect from a Pascal or Ada compiler is that it will
> tell me not just where the 'index out of range' was detected, but
> WHERE IT CAME FROM, e.g. a backtrace of some kind.

This is a quite reasonable expectation even for functional languages.
Since I can't resist the opportunity for a plug ;-), I'll point out that
the current Mercury implementation gives you stack backtraces for these
kinds of runtime errors, so long as you compile with debugging enabled.

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