Discussion: adding displayException to Exception class

Michael Snoyman michael at snoyman.com
Wed Oct 29 00:13:25 UTC 2014


Thank you for pointing that out. As it happens, that's the exact
conversation Chris and I had which led to this email ;).

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:09 AM, Felipe Lessa <felipe.lessa at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I like the proposal.  I think, though, that it needs more motivation:
> "is it just to be consistent with most other Show instances?"
>
> Personally, I think it will be nice to be able to quickly identify the
> constructor of the exception.  Currently one has Google for the error
> message and hope for the best.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Felipe.
>
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