Re: determining line number

["Adam D. Moss" <adam@...>]

Jeffrey Drake wrote:
> I am told what I am after is the equivalent to __LINE__ in C.
>
> The idea is so the output might be something like this:
>
> Message(myTest.lua: 45):   Task completed
>
> or in more useful info:
> Error(blah.lua:39): Expected list got string

You can have your special print/error function use the debugging
API to pull this information out of the stack at print-time -- that's
what I do.  Alternatively you can probably just actually pass your
lua files through the C preprocessor and __LINE__ and __FILE__
will magically do the right thing -- haven't tried that though.

Regards,
--Adam
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