It would be great to see this standardized! On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Erik Arvidsson <erik.arvids...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 12:05 PM, John J Barton > <johnjbar...@johnjbarton.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Erik Arvidsson > > <erik.arvids...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I wrote a new strawman for Error stack which is now available in some > >> form in all major browser (if betas are considered). > >> > >> http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:error_stack > >> > >> Feedback wanted. > > > > You might look at the Mueller format: > > https://gist.github.com/312a55532fac0296f2ab > > > > Note that the V8 stack is not a property of the error object but > > rather a getter. This is a valuable performance advantage since the > > stack is not converted from C++ array to string until the getter is > > called. > > This is well known. Engines can implement lazy data properties too but > maybe that is too magical. I'm fine speccing this as an accessor but > if it is an accessor we should spec it as on Error.prototype and not > on the instance. > > > Critical for tools is the ability to linkify the stack trace so we > > need the grammar to allow the URLs to be unambiguously parsable, > > including avoiding content of the error message from interfering. > > Agreed and I believe the V8 format fulfills that requirement. > > -- > erik > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >
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