Implement console.trace() method

[HalidOdat]

Specification: https://console.spec.whatwg.org/#trace
MDN Documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/console/trace_static

[hunterchen7]

could I give this a go?

[HalidOdat]

could I give this a go?

Sure :)

[nekevss]

@HalidOdat Stack traces came up in discord. I don't think I had paid attention too much (EDIT: to the current state of the implementation). Where were we in regards to the implementation of stack traces?

[hunterchen7]

@HalidOdat Stack traces came up in discord. I don't think I had paid attention too much. Where were we in regards to the implementation of stack traces?

It was me who asked the question in the discord, thank you for the reply there!

[HalidOdat]

Currently the only thing we can get is the function names of the trace from the call stack.

But I think just printing the names is good enough for now, and we can create an issue for improving the console.trace() and add line and column numbers once we store them somewhere.

[hunterchen7]

Currently the only thing we can get is the function names of the trace from the call stack.

But I think just printing the names is good enough for now, and we can create an issue for improving the console.trace() and add line and column numbers once we store them somewhere.

There's already a barebones implementation that prints out the function names so I thought this issue would be improving it by adding locations and such, does that mean I should leave it alone for now?

[HalidOdat]

I see, the issue does not seem to be up to date with the implementation, In that case I would close this issue for now, to get line number requires more work, mainly:

• adding position information to the AST (at least a Position to the Expr). Span nodes #300
• Adding some compact format of position information to CodeBlock.
• Adjusting the ByteCompiler to emit this position information.

Each one of these issues deserves a PR 😅

EDIT: If your interested in working on any of these, feel free to ask about them :)

[HalidOdat]

Closing because there is already a basic implementation of console.trace().