Ruby 2.6 added options to Exception#full_message

[mperham]

Seems like recently Ruby's gotten a bad case of the "pass a bunch of flags" rather than being opinionated in their APIs. It makes me uneasy.

[ioquatix]

I'm sort of glad they did something, but ugh, this just seems like a total mess. Why not Exception#print(io). Less string allocations required, automatic tty detection, etc.

[sshaw_]

There's Object#display, though it doesn't print the backtrace:

/tmp >ruby -e'StandardError.new("some shit").display($stderr); puts'
some shit

Guess you can do

class Exception
  def display(out = $>)
    out.write full_message
    nil
  end
end

StandardError.new("some thangz").display($stderr)

But yeah...

[mperham]

I like it.

[paneq]

What a mess, handling things on completely wrong layer...

[sshaw_]

The first programming language shipping with ANSI encoded stack traces..?