# tchrist@convex.com (Tom Christiansen)
# &assert('$var > 10', $var, $othervar, @various_info);
# That is, if the first expression evals false, we blow up. The
# rest of the args, if any, are nice to know because they will
# be printed out by &panic, which is just the stack-backtrace
# routine shamelessly borrowed from the perl debugger.
&panic
("ASSERTION BOTCHED: $_[$[]",$@
) unless eval $_[$[];
exit 1 if $] <= 4.003; # caller broken
# stack traceback gratefully borrowed from perl debugger
my ($p,$f,$l,$s,$h,$a,@a,@frames);
for ($i = 0; ($p,$f,$l,$s,$h,$w) = caller($i); $i++) {
if (/^StB\000/ && length($_) == length($_main{'_main'})) {
s/([^\0]*)/'$1'/ unless /^-?[\d.]+$/;
s/([\200-\377])/sprintf("M-%c",ord($1)&0177)/eg;
s/([\0-\37\177])/sprintf("^%c",ord($1)^64)/eg;
$w = $w ?
'@ = ' : '$ = ';
$a = $h ?
'(' . join(', ', @a) . ')' : '';
push(@frames, "$w&$s$a from file $f line $l\n");
for ($i=0; $i <= $#frames; $i++) {