bactraces (was: Getting NN going)

OLIVIER LEFEVRE olefevre@usa.net
28 Feb 99 23:16:47 MST


Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au> wrote:
>
> Since I can't resist the opportunity for a plug ;-), I'll point out tha=
t
> the current Mercury implementation gives you stack backtraces for these=

> kinds of runtime errors, so long as you compile with debugging enabled.=


Yes, such backtraces are tremendously useful. They are maybe 50% of why
Java is so much more productive to program in than C++: you get them by
default, even when dealing with 3rd-party code. It would be nice for =

Clean to have such a facility, too.

-- O.L.



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