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| author | Marshall Lochbaum <mwlochbaum@gmail.com> | 2021-08-30 15:28:04 -0400 |
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| committer | Marshall Lochbaum <mwlochbaum@gmail.com> | 2021-08-30 15:28:04 -0400 |
| commit | 77bd054713bc698a67ccc38a0b6fe07ffc161381 (patch) | |
| tree | 46274db054b50e9388751412e86dd2c5ce4d39f1 /docs/spec/primitive.html | |
| parent | 2187c15b54f8b2803586e0abdb7c7bc94daa83eb (diff) | |
Use 𝕩 as the error message in !𝕩
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/spec/primitive.html b/docs/spec/primitive.html index 128fd24f..f4cf08d9 100644 --- a/docs/spec/primitive.html +++ b/docs/spec/primitive.html @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ </ul> <h2 id="other-provided-functionality"><a class="header" href="#other-provided-functionality">Other provided functionality</a></h2> <ul> -<li><strong>Assert</strong> (<code><span class='Function'>!</span></code>) causes an error if the argument is not <code><span class='Number'>1</span></code>. If <code><span class='Value'>𝕨</span></code> is provided, it gives a message to be associated with this error (which can be any value, not necessarily a string).</li> +<li><strong>Assert</strong> (<code><span class='Function'>!</span></code>) causes an error if <code><span class='Value'>𝕩</span></code> is not <code><span class='Number'>1</span></code>. The message associated with the error (which is not used by core BQN but might be shown to the user or used by system functions) is <code><span class='Value'>𝕨</span></code> if given and <code><span class='Value'>𝕩</span></code> otherwise. It can be any value, not just a string.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><strong>Catch</strong> (<code><span class='Modifier2'>⎊</span></code>) evaluates <code><span class='Function'>𝔽</span></code> on the arguments <code><span class='Value'>𝕨</span></code> (if present) and <code><span class='Value'>𝕩</span></code>. If <code><span class='Function'>𝔽</span></code> completes without error it returns the result, but if evaluation of <code><span class='Function'>𝔽</span></code> results in an error then the error is suppressed, and Catch evaluates <code><span class='Function'>𝔾</span></code> on the arguments and returns the result. Errors in <code><span class='Function'>𝔾</span></code> are not caught. Catch only prevents evaluation errors, and not syntax errors: these are considered errors in the program as a whole rather than any particular part of it.</li> |
