Builtins.exceptionMessage.3kaya

Langue: en

Version: March 2009 (fedora - 05/07/09)

Section: 3 (Bibliothèques de fonctions)

Sommaire

NAME

Builtins::exceptionMessage - Get a human-readable error message

SYNOPSIS

String exceptionMessage( Exception e )

ARGUMENTS

e The caught Exception

DESCRIPTION

Return the error message in an Exception. This is useful for determining the exception caught by a catch-all clause, but it is preferable to catch Exceptions by name.


 try {
     functionThatMayGoWrong(a,b,c);
 } catch(e) {
     putStrLn("Something went wrong: "+exceptionMessage(e));
 }

AUTHORS

Kaya standard library by Edwin Brady, Chris Morris and others (kaya@kayalang.org). For further information see http://kayalang.org/

LICENSE

The Kaya standard library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (version 2.1 or any later version) as published by the Free Software Foundation.

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