From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2003-11-26T23:10:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Backtrace without skips needed

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> |Is there a way to tell ruby that it must never skip levels in the
> |backtrace like this:
>
>   begin
>     foo
>   rescue => e
>     cb = e.backtrace
>     print cb.shift, ":", e.message, "\n"
>     cb.each{|c| print "\tfrom ", c, "\n"}
>     exit 1
>   end
>
> 							matz.
>

I, for one, won't remember this when I need it, so may I suggest
that this be wrapped for convenience in a standard method, so we can
do
    begin
      foo
    rescue => e
      e.full_backtrace  # or some other name
      exit 1
    end
in some near-future ruby, please?

        Thank you,
        Hugh