Re: Lua 5.3: assert non-string values in #2 cause `(no error message)`-style error message

[Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@...>]

On Monday, October 20, 2014, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2014-10-20 22:28 GMT+02:00 Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@trms.com>:
>
> > I'm thinking about the concept of "designing errors" or, putting time into
> > the design of how errors help / teach / guide the application developer. In
> > question form: How does one think of errors as an opportunity to help at the
> > time when a developer is most open to help?
>
>    Optimization is the icing on a cake
>    That has already been baked.
>
> Absolutely #1 in my book is to use many unnecessary functions.
> Functions with no arguments that get called only once and have
> long names. Your program is readable by someone who can read
> a poem, your tracebacks look like a story told backwards.
>
> As long as, of course, your error objects are strings. :-)

Now you're just describing all of my Karel the Robot programs!

-Andrew