Line numbers in stack traces

[David Hopwood]

Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
> I pointed out that macros make source line numbers much less
> useful, lamenting that Erlang has such things.
> 
> David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood@REDACTED> wrote
> 	This is true, but it doesn't seriously interfere with the utility of line
> 	numbers, especially for programmers who make little or no use of macros.
> 
> I just extracted all the non-white-space non-comment non-'end' lines from
> the *.[ehy]rl files in an Erlang distribution, and found that
> 
> one line in 94 is a -define.
> 
> This is a *higher* proportion of -defines in Erlang/OTP than
> I have #defines in my C code!

What proportion have a definition that is longer than one line or that
uses another macro? (A rough estimate based on a sample will do. I'm genuinely
interested, not just trying to make a point.)

-- 
David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood@REDACTED>