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-
- error message ?info? ?code?
-
-
- DESCRIPTION
- Returns a TCL_ERROR code, which causes command interpreta-
- tion to be unwound. Message is a string that is returned to
- the application to indicate what went wrong.
-
- If the info argument is provided and is non-empty, it is
- used to initialize the global variable errorInfo. errorInfo
- is used to accumulate a stack trace of what was in progress
- when an error occurred; as nested commands unwind, the Tcl
- interpreter adds information to errorInfo. If the info
- argument is present, it is used to initialize errorInfo and
- the first increment of unwind information will not be added
- by the Tcl interpreter. In other words, the command con-
- taining the error command will not appear in errorInfo; in
- its place will be info. This feature is most useful in con-
- junction with the catch command: if a caught error cannot be
- handled successfully, info can be used to return a stack
- trace reflecting the original point of occurrence of the
- error:
-
- catch {...} errMsg
- set savedInfo $errorInfo
- ...
- error $errMsg $savedInfo
-
-
- If the code argument is present, then its value is stored in
- the errorCode global variable. This variable is intended to
- hold a machine-readable description of the error in cases
- where such information is available; see the section BUILT-
- IN VARIABLES below for information on the proper format for
- the variable. If the code argument is not present, then
- errorCode is automatically reset to ``NONE'' by the Tcl
- interpreter as part of processing the error generated by the
- command.
-
-
- KEYWORDS
- error, errorCode, errorInfo
-