[erlang-questions] blunt error reporting by escript

[Ulf Wiger]

Yes, I do that already.

/Ulf

2008/9/10 Bengt Kleberg <bengt.kleberg@REDACTED>:
> Greetings,
>
> While waiting for escript to get better error reporting have you
> considered using:
>
> a() ->
> {_, {ok, Value}} = {a, call_that_should_return_ok_value()}.
>
> b() ->
> {_, {ok, Value}} = {b, call_that_should_return_ok_value()}.
>
> bengt
>
> On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 16:58 +0200, Ulf Wiger wrote:
>> I'm writing a non-trivial escript script, and am getting pretty
>> frustrated with the error reporting.
>>
>> escript: exception error: no match of right hand side value {ok, ["..."]}
>>
>> My script is only 75 lines so far but has 10 different functions, and it would
>> certainly help to at least know in which function the error occured,
>> if not the line.
>>
>> If the script is interpreted, couldn't it give me the line number?
>> I'd even forego the pretty-printing of the message in favor of some hard
>> facts about where in the program the exception happened.
>>
>> BR,
>> Ulf W
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