[Chicken-users] Re: Showing source:line in output of failed assertions?

[Felix]

From: Alejandro Forero Cuervo <address@hidden>
Subject: Showing source:line in output of failed assertions?
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 14:57:40 +0200

> When an assertion (based on the “assert” macro) fails, Chicken
> currently prints something like:
> 
>     Error: assertion failed: (some-expr)
> 
>             Call history:
> 
>             ##sys#error                     <--
> 
> Could the definition of the assert macro be modified to include in the
> output the source file and line number containing the expression, when
> known, to produce something like this instead?
> 
>     Error: svnwiki-foo.scm:812: assertion failed: (some-expr)
> 
>             Call history:
> 
>             ##sys#error                     <--
> 
> This would greatly simplify my work: I have many programs that assert
> the same expression in multiple places, and looking at the call
> history is not always helpful to know which is the one that failed).
> This should be relatively straightforward given the “get-line-number”
> macro.
> 

Yes, makes sense.


cheers,
felix