Interesting sourcemap usage.  But is there any hope for standardization of
the existing stack handling for ES7? It wasn't clear to me why it stalled
for ES6.  There a few things I would like to see:
1) standardization V8's Error.captureStackTrace API
2) standardization of the stack format
3) standardizaton of when the stack is added to the Error object (creation
vs throw)
4) specification as to whether throw (and re-throw) overwrite any existing
stack property

More would be welcome but that is what I would actually have an immediate
use for.




On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Mark S. Miller <erights at google.com> wrote:

> Hi John, see also my message at <
> https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2014-March/036642.html>
> which cites some of your work on sourcemaps.
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Rick Waldron <waldron.rick at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 1:38 PM, John Lenz <concavelenz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I was recently modifying some code to be strict mode compliant and it
>>> reminded me that the primary use of the Function caller property and
>>> arguments.caller is to build stack traces.   Now the latest Internet
>>> Explorer releases have support for stack traces, as of course do Chrome,
>>> FF, and Safari but only Chrome/V8, to my knowledge, has an actual API.
>>>
>>> I know there was some initial work in this area and nothing is likely to
>>> happen in the ES6 time frame but can something to be done to make the
>>> stacks traces more usable?
>>>
>>
>> Take a look at the work Erik Arvidsson has done so far:
>>
>> http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:error_stack
>>
>>
>> Rick
>>
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>
> --
>     Cheers,
>     --MarkM
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Interesting sourcemap usage.  But is there any hope for standardization of
the existing stack handling for ES7? It wasn't clear to me why it stalled
for ES6.  There a few things I would like to see:

1. standardization V8's Error.captureStackTrace API
2. standardization of the stack format
3. standardizaton of when the stack is added to the Error object (creation vs throw)
4. specification as to whether throw (and re-throw) overwrite any existing stack property

More would be welcome but that is what I would actually have an immediate
use for.