Command: exception

Syntax

exception <assign> {,<assign> ...}

Description

Create one or more exception identifiers and (optionally) give them values.

Parameters

• <assign>: <ident> { = <value>}

• <ident> - The name of the identifier.

• <value> - Another exception or a function yielding an exception.

Switches

None

Notes

If no value if given, the identifier is initialized to an empty exception.

Exceptions created by the exception command are user-exceptions, as opposed to system exceptions which can be generated by the system.

Examples

Create a new unitialized exception identifier.

exception myex

Create a new exception identifier and initialize it with a function value.

exception bad_data_ex=error_exception('Bad Data',107)

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