Nicolas barnier wrote:
> 
> Ohad Rodeh wrote:
> >
> > I have a problem with the assert solution. It does not
> > indicate the line number in the source code. For example, running the
> > program:
> >
> >   Fatal error: uncaught exception Pervasives.Assert_failure("xx.ml", 484,
> >   496)
> 
> >From the users manual :
> 
> exception Assert_failure of (string * int * int)
> 
>      Exception raised when an assertion fails. The arguments are the
> location of
> the pattern-matching in the source code (file name, position of first
> character,
>                                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> position of last character).
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This information is fairly useless to me. I use 'vi', which has
no way to move to the n'th character of a file: in particular,
n forward movements do not count line end characters. This information
is also not what the compiler reports; namely line/column numbers,
which is much more useful. IMHO.


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