Re: Hook for ignored errors?

[Paul K <paul@...>]

> Would it not make sense to provide for a more specific "I'm about to
> ignore this error object" function that the environment can supply, that
> allows any kind of value and not just strings?

I'd be interested in this as well for trapping/reporting errors during
debugging.

I had a similar proposal
(http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2014-03/msg00457.html) and Joshua
Jensen pointed to his error hook patch for Lua 5.1 as a possible
solution: https://github.com/jjensen/lua-tilde/blob/master/lib/lua/lua_5.1.3.patch

Paul.

On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 9:01 AM Andrew Gierth
<andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk> wrote:
>
> The current 5.4 releases assume that the only useful thing that can be
> done with an ignored error is to emit it as a warning if it is a string,
> and emit a generic message otherwise.
>
> Would it not make sense to provide for a more specific "I'm about to
> ignore this error object" function that the environment can supply, that
> allows any kind of value and not just strings?
>
> --
> Andrew.
>