From: John F. <jf...@ms...> - 2009-05-07 02:21:55
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"Leslie P. Polzer" <sk...@vi...> writes: >> In fact, the reason for bringing this up is that I am thinking about >> backtraces and, in particular, unifying their format across a few >> implementations. >> >> I guess the consensus is that people like the TLF forms. >> >> Would a patch to additionally add the line and column number be >> considered? > > I am in favor of this, too. While TLF forms may have their merits > they are useless for me because I don't have a tool that will > walk the syntax tree and display the resulting form to me > (I could probably hack something with Swank, though). That is actually rather annoying because of the issue of replacing the read-table, which swank has a good stab at. > With line numbers I could just point my editor at the offending > line. I shall have a go at doing it in the next couple of weeks. If I fall silent, then someone else please pick up the baton. ;-) PS. Meddling with Clozure CL backtraces I find that it uses a single "form number". I guess that there is a massive hatred of the idea of line number in the Lisp world. |