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This keeps hint messages, source location information, and source code
snippets grouped together, while making stack traces shorter (so that
more stack frames can be viewed on the same terminal).
Before:
error:
… while evaluating the attribute 'body'
at /Users/wiggles/nix/tests/functional/lang/eval-fail-assert.nix:4:3:
3|
4| body = x "x";
| ^
5| }
… from call site
at /Users/wiggles/nix/tests/functional/lang/eval-fail-assert.nix:4:10:
3|
4| body = x "x";
| ^
5| }
… while calling 'x'
at /Users/wiggles/nix/tests/functional/lang/eval-fail-assert.nix:2:7:
1| let {
2| x = arg: assert arg == "y"; 123;
| ^
3|
error: assertion '(arg == "y")' failed
at /Users/wiggles/nix/tests/functional/lang/eval-fail-assert.nix:2:12:
1| let {
2| x = arg: assert arg == "y"; 123;
| ^
3|
After:
error:
… while evaluating the attribute 'body'
at /Users/wiggles/nix/tests/functional/lang/eval-fail-assert.nix:4:3:
3|
4| body = x "x";
| ^
5| }
… from call site
at /Users/wiggles/nix/tests/functional/lang/eval-fail-assert.nix:4:10:
3|
4| body = x "x";
| ^
5| }
… while calling 'x'
at /Users/wiggles/nix/tests/functional/lang/eval-fail-assert.nix:2:7:
1| let {
2| x = arg: assert arg == "y"; 123;
| ^
3|
error: assertion '(arg == "y")' failed
at /Users/wiggles/nix/tests/functional/lang/eval-fail-assert.nix:2:12:
1| let {
2| x = arg: assert arg == "y"; 123;
| ^
3|
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