[Haskell-cafe] Decorating exceptions with backtrace information

Henning Thielemann lemming at henning-thielemann.de
Fri May 8 17:32:54 UTC 2020


On Fri, 8 May 2020, Niklas Hambüchen wrote:

> On 5/8/20 5:37 PM, Henning Thielemann wrote:
>
>> a callstack is not useful for a user.
>
> Call stacks have been very useful to me as a user of non-Haskell tools 
> so far, because they are excellent for attaching to bug reports and 
> usually led to developers fixing my problems faster.

This confirms that they are not for you, but you only forward them to the 
developer.


Can someone please give me examples where current state lacks and how they 
are addressed by the proposal(s)?


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