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On Jul 26, 2013, at 1:00 PM, Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Now, if there could be some lazy way to reference a point in Perl
>> time/code/memory at the time an exception was thrown, that made it
>> possible to introspect the stack that occurred at that time, in an
>> efficient manner, that'd be cool.
Yeah, this is something I was wondering about, as well.
> That sounds a bit like Yuval's Devel::StackTrace::XS [1]
Hard to tell; no docs!
>> I'd be especially cool, because it wouldn't inherently bind you to
>> having one type of stack trace presentation, and one type of stack
>> trace presentation only, things like Carp::Always could hook in to
>> this facility, ie:
>>
>> if ( $_->isa('exceptionything') ) {
>> my $stack = CORE::stacktracefor($_);
>> print $_->message . custom_stacktrace_formatter($stack);
>> }
>>
>> ( The point being its useful to be able to decouple the presentation
>> logic from the actual exception implementation so that presentation
>> can be changed at the top level when needed )
>
> Agreed
Yes, if this is possible, it would be preferred: Defer iterating over the stack trace until someone asks for it.
Best,
David
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