Re: [Junit-devel] String Diff Patch Plea

[Dossy <do...@pa...>]

On 2002.04.09, Curt Sampson <cj...@cy...> wrote:
> > In principle, yes; unfortunately, the "display stuff" is intimately
> > intertwined with the data model, since the message is passed into the
> > exception's constructor.
> 
> I see that. So why do we want to (or want to continue to) pass this
> message into the exception's constructor?

Because the message that gets passed into the exception's constructor
is what gets displayed in the stack trace.

If you can provide an alternate (and portable across JVMs) way of
getting a stack trace in Java, in actual compilable and executable
code, I know I would personally be very interested in seeing it.

-- Dossy

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