Builtins.exceptionMessage(3kaya)

Builtins.exceptionMessage3kaya

Get a human-readable error message

Usage

String exceptionMessage( Exception e )

Arguments

e The caught Exception

Overview

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));
}

Releases

4 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 5.0
  2. 6.0
  3. 7
  4. 8

Authors

Kaya standard library by Edwin Brady, Chris Morris and others ([email protected]). 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.

From kaya 0.4.4-6.2 in Debian 8 (Jessie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.