Ah! Of course. The natural thing to spec would be that the text of the expression would be part of (all of?) the "message" of the exception object in the 1-arg case.
--lars > -----Original Message----- > From: P T Withington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > P T Withington > Sent: 11. april 2008 13:46 > To: Lars Hansen > Cc: es4-discuss@mozilla.org > Subject: Re: ES4 draft: assert expression > > Is there any way the value thrown in the 1-arg case could be > the 'text' of arg1? It's so painful to get an assertion and > not know what it is... > > On 2008-04-11, at 13:16 EDT, Lars Hansen wrote: > > We talked about debugging information and an assertion form on > > es4-discuss a while ago, in a thread about the Error object. As a > > result of that discussion, I'm sending out a draft for an "assert" > > expression form. In addition, the Error object draft will > be updated > > to accomodate a new subclass AssertionExpression, and a simple > > standard for debugging information will be added to the > description of > > the Error classes. > > > > The last detail from that discussion, about providing a way for > > programs to set the source origin and line numbers -- aiding > > translators -- is still open, but I am aware of how > desirable this is > > for certain applications. > > > > Anyhow, here's the first draft spec for the assert expression. > > > > --lars > > > > <assert.html>_______________________________________________ > > Es4-discuss mailing list > > Es4-discuss@mozilla.org > > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss > > _______________________________________________ Es4-discuss mailing list Es4-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es4-discuss
