throw ( error -- * )
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Vocabulary
kernel

Inputs

error

an object

Outputs
None

Word description
Saves the current continuation in the error-continuation global variable and throws an error. Execution does not continue at the point after the throw call. Rather, the innermost catch block is invoked, and execution continues at that point.

See also
rethrow, throw-restarts, rethrow-restarts, throw-continue

Definition

IN: kernel

GENERIC: throw ( error -- * )

Methods

USING: combinators.private kernel kernel.private ;

M: object throw
    ERROR-HANDLER-QUOT special-object [ die ] or
    ( error -- * ) call-effect-unsafe ;