[ruby-core:103005] [Ruby master Feature#17743] Show argument types in backtrace

Issue #17743 has been updated by ufuk (Ufuk Kayserilioglu).


p8 (Petrik de Heus) wrote in #note-3:
> ```
> from hi.rb:2:in `say_hi' called with NilClass, Numeric, String
> ```

What about keyword arguments that could have been supplied in any order? What about the block argument, if it was `nil` or not? 

> Maybe for Boolean values showing true and false.

There is no `Boolean` type in Ruby, so the output would naturally be `TrueClass` or `FalseClass` anyway. No need to special case this.

> I can imagine it being a performance overhead.

This is a huge drawback for a nice-to-have feature, though.



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Feature #17743: Show argument types in backtrace
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/17743#change-91070

* Author: p8 (Petrik de Heus)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
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Given the following Ruby program:
``` ruby
def say_hi(person)
  puts message(person)
end

def message(person)
  "hi: #{person.name}"
end

say_hi(nil)
```

It would be helpful if the backtrace contained the types of the argumets:
```
hi.rb:6:in `message': undefined method `name' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
	from hi.rb:2:in `say_hi' called with NilClass
	from hi.rb:9:in `<main>' called with NilClass
```

Inspired by the following Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/lzsthw/status/1374350046909628423




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