[mercury-users] question about error/1

[Ralph Becket]

Nicholas Nethercote, Thursday, 24 January 2008:
> Hi,
> 
> When I call error/1, the program terminates with a message like this:
> 
>   Uncaught Mercury exception:
>   Software Error: <message>
> 
> Is it possible to omit the "Uncaught Mercury exception: Software Error:" 
> bit?

That's rather the point of error/1.  You just use throw/1 for other
exceptions.

> I guess the only way is to have a 'try' somewhere higher up, and if the 
> error occurs then print <message> via the usual I/O predicates?

Yep.
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