Re: Carp -- shortmess and longmess

From: Haakon Riiser (hakonrk_at_fys.uio.no)
Date: 07/26/04 

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 19:45:27 +0000 (UTC)

[Anno Siegel]

> Carp tries to find a location on the call stack where it believes
> the error was introduced. When it can't find one, it switches to
> a full backtrace on its own accord. This seems to be happening here.
>
> The error location is always a point where a call crosses module
> boundaries. Give it such a call, and the results will be more
> consistent:
> [...]

Thanks; in the future, I should probably read beyond the first
paragraph before I consider filing bug reports. I thought the
summary was so clear, that I didn't bother to look to the second
paragraph, which begins: "Here is a more complete description of
how shortmess works." Embarrassing! :-) 

-- 
 Haakon

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