The only formatting requirement for the stack property is that if it is 
present, it must be a string.

—Oliver

On Nov 12, 2013, at 9:23 AM, Erik Arvidsson <[email protected]> wrote:

> When I started investigating this I had the hope that stack could be 
> standardized. However, the format of the string is cannot be changed without 
> breaking the web so the way forward is to introduce a new property name. But 
> since we are introducing a new property name we should return structured data 
> instead of a plain old string.
> 
> I haven't had the time to work on this since my initial analysis of the state 
> of the stack property.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 7:51 PM, John Barton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Note that in Chrome the devtools are remote and error.stack is a getter which 
> issues a remote method call to the backend.  Only when the stack property is 
> accessed will the internal representation be converted to a string. Anything 
> else is too expensive. 
> 
> A plain JS object format would be much more useful for development tools 
> developers.
> 
> jjb
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