This has been bugging me in the back of my mind for ages now. Does anyone know of a way that issues like https://github.com/MasonProtter/LegibleLambdas.jl/issues/6 can be fixed?
Basically, I have a callable struct
which stores a function and an expression, and is supposed to print that expression when you show
the struct. I'd like errormessages to be able to use this info, but I'm not sure if there's a way or not. I see that https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/base/base/#Base.Experimental.register_error_hint exists, but I'm not sure it's applicable here
Type treason? https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/22363#issuecomment-308472359
struct ShowExpr{Tag} end
const COUNTER = Ref(0)
const EXPRS = Dict{Int,Any}()
macro showexpr(ex)
tag = COUNTER[] += 1
EXPRS[tag] = ex
:(ShowExpr{$tag}())
end
function Base.show(io::IO, ::Type{ShowExpr{Tag}}) where {Tag}
print(io, "typeof(@showexpr ", EXPRS[Tag], ")")
end
function Base.show(io::IO, ::ShowExpr{Tag}) where {Tag}
print(io, "@showexpr ", EXPRS[Tag])
end
Horrible code :laughing:
If I'm understanding properly, I do think that Julia needs special handling of MethodError
. Julia is based upon generic programming, and we expect users to hook into a given library's algorithms by implementing function methods for their types. When a user gets a traceback, one normally thinks something's wrong, when in fact, for MethodError
, they've not done anything wrong so much as they are not done implementing. For those unfamiliar with Julia giving a MethodError
traceback without really explaining what it means seems a bit hostile.
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