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This is a spin off of #11035. I’d like to see a way for a function foo

• use another function bar with a (?_::CallStack) constraint so that bar will not print a call stack, and
• use another function bar with a (?_::CallStack) constraint so that if bar prints a call stack, it will stop at the call to foo.

This might be possible to implement with a special rootCallStack :: CallStack which is a value such that

x `pushCallStack` rootCallStack = rootCallStack

but

rootCallStack `pushCallStack` x = rootCallStack “:” x

as before and a call stack that consists of only a rootCallStack causes no stack trace to be printed.

The use case is to provide the user of a library less cluttered call stacks that do not expose unhelpful details and allow her to quickly spot the relevant information.

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