[erlang-patches] Attempt at making stacktraces more readable

[Anthony Ramine]

Hello,

When an error isn't caught by a catch expression, the VM sends the faulty stacktrace as a string with a small message to the error logger. As it is already a string representation and not the stacktrace itself, the result may as well be readable and human-friendly. This is an attempt at making exactly this.

I have no idea how this will be received by the community, I'm just trying to spark a discussion about how we could improve the way stacktraces are currently printed.

To choose a format, Rosetta Code was my main source of inspiration [1].

	git fetch https://github.com/nox/otp.git better-error-reports

	https://github.com/nox/otp/compare/erlang:maint...better-error-reports
	https://github.com/nox/otp/compare/erlang:maint...better-error-reports.patch

Regards,

[1] http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Stack_traces

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Anthony Ramine