Re: Question about error handling

[Rob Kendrick <rjek@...>]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 10:14:22AM -0300, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> >Along the same lines... is there an easy way to get a string containing the
> >stack backtrace that I think the debugging library's default error handler
> >generates from a error handler written in Lua?
> 
> You can do it yourself:
> 
>  function _ERRORMESSAGE(s)
>   print(s)
>   for i=2,1000 do
>    local a=getinfo(i)
>    if a==nil then break end
>    print(a.short_src,a.currentline,a.name)
>   end
>  end

I *knew* it would be something blissfully simple, and I could work it out if
I plugged my brain in.  Ta!

(need more coffee.)

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