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Re: loss of abstraction Andre van Tonder 24 Aug 2005 13:57 UTC

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:

> Andre van Tonder <xxxxxx@now.het.brown.edu> writes:
>
>> Should I be able to write Scheme code whose meaning depends on page
>> layout, dots, whitespace, or comments?
>
> Yes, because it's useful to display source location information in
> stack traces, and location is best expressed by line and column
> numbers.

Sure, but this can be done without giving the programmer procedural access to
the information displayed in the exception's stack trace.

Andre