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+// Copyright 2018-2019 the Deno authors. All rights reserved. MIT license.
+import * as dispatch from "./dispatch.ts";
+import { sendSync } from "./dispatch_json.ts";
+
+// TODO(bartlomieju): move to `repl.ts`?
+export function formatError(errString: string): string {
+  const res = sendSync(dispatch.OP_FORMAT_ERROR, { error: errString });
+  return res.error;
+}