From efc0d1e7eafcdba7f9207f777a00f28bb48da5e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rebecca <ubq323@ubq323.website>
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2026 22:21:31 +0100
Subject: improve error reporting

---
 bs.lua    | 9 +++++++++
 main.lua  | 6 +++---
 pylon.lua | 6 ++++--
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 bs.lua

diff --git a/bs.lua b/bs.lua
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bb284cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bs.lua
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+local M = {}
+-- handles errors sensibly
+function M.loop_correctly(context, cq)
+	local ok, err, code, thread, pollee, fd = cq:loop()
+	error('👉'..context..' '..debug.traceback(thread,err)..'👈',0)
+end
+
+return M
+
diff --git a/main.lua b/main.lua
index b1cb708..a500284 100644
--- a/main.lua
+++ b/main.lua
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 local cqueues = require'cqueues'
 local class = require'r.class'
+local pprint = require'pprint'
 
+local bs = require 'bs'
 local config = require'config'
 local Channel = require'channel'
-local pprint = require'pprint'
 
 local pylon_classes = {
 	irc = require'irc.pylon',
@@ -62,8 +63,7 @@ function Wilson.run(self)
 		self.cq:wrap(pylon.run, pylon)
 		print("now running pylon", pylonname)
 	end
-	print('toplevel',self.cq:loop())
-	cqueues.sleep(2)
+	bs.loop_correctly('(toplevel)',self.cq)
 end
 
 local config_file = assert(io.open("wilson.ini","r"))
diff --git a/pylon.lua b/pylon.lua
index cd0ae9e..7841f11 100644
--- a/pylon.lua
+++ b/pylon.lua
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 local cqueues = require'cqueues'
-
+local pprint = require 'pprint'
 local class = require 'r.class'
 local qw = require 'r.qw'
+
+local bs = require'bs'
 local Queue = require 'queue'
 
 local BasePylon = class()
@@ -25,6 +27,6 @@ function BasePylon.run(self)
 		self.cq:wrap(self.recving, self)
 		self.cq:wrap(self.sending, self)
 	end)
-	print(self.name, self.cq:loop())
+	bs.loop_correctly(self.name, self.cq)
 end
 return BasePylon
-- 
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