pretty exceptions

[Ara.T.Howard]

hopefully i'm not missing anything obvious here, but doesn't i make sense that
there should be something that allows one to display an Exception in the way
ruby does it (when raised) with class, message, and backtrace, something like:

class Exception
def errmsg
"%s: %s\n%s" % [self.class, message, (backtrace || []).join("\n") << "\n"]
end
end

wouldn't it make sense for Exception#inspect to do this?

-a
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