Determine where a match fails

Sean Hinde sean.hinde@REDACTED
Wed Jan 4 18:49:09 CET 2006


On 4 Jan 2006, at 17:15, Dave Smith wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Is there a way to determine the File/Line where a badmatch error is  
> generated? Obviously, you get a stack trace with the function call,  
> but more often than not, that's not quite descriptive enough, since  
> all you get is the value that didn't match...something.
>
> Any guidance would be appreciated. :)

You might like to try out the smart exceptions package from jungerl.  
I believe this adds such things.

I've never actually tried it myself, but it might just do the job.

Regards,
Sean




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