0001-Facy-Colo-u-red-Errors-hath-come.patch

From 9f1be1c0ef3fd0a21a85256ff076622f356f98f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lue <lue@twigil.drangle.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:01:49 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fancy Colo[u]red Errors hath come!
 [If your terminal supports ANSI, that is :)]

---
 src/Perl6/BacktracePrinter.pm |   21 +++++++++++----------
 src/builtins/Num.pir          |   10 +++++-----
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Perl6/BacktracePrinter.pm b/src/Perl6/BacktracePrinter.pm
index 52f2b5c..89ffe26 100644
--- a/src/Perl6/BacktracePrinter.pm
+++ b/src/Perl6/BacktracePrinter.pm
@@ -3,9 +3,10 @@ class Perl6::BacktracePrinter;
 # Drives the overall backtrace production process.
 method backtrace_for($exception) {
     my @backtrace := $exception.backtrace();
+    my @errorprefix := ("Achtung!", "DON'T PANIC!", "Error!", "Attention!", "Oi!", "Errm...", "Owie!", "FAIL");
     if self.is_runtime(@backtrace) {
         # Runtime error. Start with the error message.
-        my $trace := pir::getattribute__pps($exception, 'message');
+        my $trace := "\e[31;1m" ~ @errorprefix[pir::rand__II(7)] ~ " \e[22;31m" ~ pir::getattribute__pps($exception, 'message')~"\e[00m";
         
         # If top frame is 'die' or warn, drop it from the top.
         if ~@backtrace[0]<sub> eq '&die' || ~@backtrace[0]<sub> eq '&warn' {
@@ -16,10 +17,10 @@ method backtrace_for($exception) {
         # file to the error and be done.
         if self.is_warning($exception) {
             my $location := @backtrace[0]<annotations>;
-            $trace := $trace ~ " at " ~
+            $trace := $trace ~ " at \e[33m" ~
                 ($location<line> ?? 'line ' ~ $location<line> !! '<unknown line>') ~
                 ($location<file> ?? ':' ~ $location<file>     !! ''              ) ~
-                "\n";
+                "\e[00m\n";
             return $trace;
         }
 
@@ -35,7 +36,7 @@ method backtrace_for($exception) {
             # If we hit the end of the user's code, we're done; emit last
             # annotations and say we're in main program body.
             if ~$_<sub> eq '!UNIT_START' {
-                $trace := $trace ~ self.backtrace_line(0, $cur_annotations);
+                $trace := $trace ~ "\e[34;1m" ~ self.backtrace_line(0, $cur_annotations) ~ "\e[00m";
                 last;
             }
 
@@ -45,7 +46,7 @@ method backtrace_for($exception) {
             # informative line numbers.
             if !pir::isnull(pir::getprop__psp('$!p6type', $_<sub>))
                     || pir::substr(~$_<sub>, 0, 6) eq '&infix' {
-                $trace := $trace ~ self.backtrace_line($_<sub>, $cur_annotations);
+                $trace := $trace ~ "\e[34;1m" ~ self.backtrace_line($_<sub>, $cur_annotations) ~ "\e[00m";
                 $cur_annotations := 0;
             }
         }
@@ -53,8 +54,8 @@ method backtrace_for($exception) {
     } else {
         # For parse time exceptions, we just want the message, with no
         # back trace beyond this.
-        return "===SORRY!===\n" ~
-            pir::getattribute__pps($exception, 'message') ~ "\n";
+        return "\e[41;37;1m===SORRY!===\e[00m\n" ~
+            "\e[31m" ~ pir::getattribute__pps($exception, 'message') ~ "\e[00m\n";
     }
 }
 
@@ -78,12 +79,12 @@ method is_warning($exception) {
 # Renders one line in the backtrace, using the given sub name and
 # annotations set.
 method backtrace_line($sub, $location) {
-    "  in " ~
+    "  in \e[22;32m" ~
         ($sub            ?? self.fullname($sub)       !! 'main program body') ~
-    " at " ~
+    "\e[34;1m at \e[22;33m" ~
         ($location<line> ?? 'line ' ~ $location<line> !! '<unknown line>'   ) ~
         ($location<file> ?? ':' ~ $location<file>     !! ''                 ) ~
-    "\n"
+    "\e[00m\n"
 }
 
 # Generates the fully qualified name of the sub.
diff --git a/src/builtins/Num.pir b/src/builtins/Num.pir
index c77a2b7..eeb4563 100644
--- a/src/builtins/Num.pir
+++ b/src/builtins/Num.pir
@@ -231,15 +231,15 @@ finish:
 
 #errors
 ERANGE: 
-    die "DON'T PANIC! The radix is out of range (2..36 only)"
+    die "The radix is out of range (2..36 only)"
 EINVALIDCHAR:
-    $S0 = concat "DON'T PANIC! Invalid character (", $S0
-    $S0 = concat $S0, ")! Please try again :) "
+    $S0 = concat "Invalid character (", $S0
+    $S0 = concat $S0, ")"
     die $S0
 EBASENOEXP:
-    die "DON'T PANIC! You gave us a base for the magnitude, but you forgot the exponent."
+    die "You gave us a base for the magnitude, but you forgot the exponent."
 EEXPNOBASE:
-    die "DON'T PANIC! You gave us an exponent for the magnitude, but you forgot the base."
+    die "You gave us an exponent for the magnitude, but you forgot the base."
 .end
 
 
-- 
1.6.0.4