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Lexical Elements of the DEC Text Processing Utility Language 4.9 Reserved Words

If the error or warning is trapped by a selector other than OTHERWISE, DECTPU does not place the error or warning message in the message buffer unless the error handler code instructs it to do so. In this case, after setting ERROR, ERROR_LINE, and ERROR_TEXT, DECTPU executes the code associated with the selector. If the code does not return to the calling procedure or program, DECTPU checks whether one of the selectors associated with the code just executed is TPU$_CONTROLC or OTHERWISE. If so, DECTPU performs the equivalent of the following sequence:

special_error_symbol := 0;

LEARN_ABORT; RETURN (FALSE);

If not, the error handler terminates and DECTPU resumes execution at the next statement after the statement that generated the error or warning.

For more information on the special error symbol in DECTPU, see the description of the SET (SPECIAL_ERROR_SYMBOL) built-in procedure in the DEC Text Processing Utility Reference Manual.

If the error or warning is trapped by the OTHERWISE selector, DECTPU writes the associated error or warning message in the message buffer. Next, DECTPU executes the code associated with the OTHERWISE selector. If the code does not return to the calling procedure or program, DECTPU performs the equivalent of the following sequence:

special_error_symbol := 0;

LEARN_ABORT; RETURN (FALSE);

If the error or warning is not trapped by any selector, DECTPU writes the associated error or warning message in the message buffer. Next, DECTPU performs the equivalent of the following sequence:

special_error_symbol := 0;

LEARN_ABORT; RETURN (FALSE);

If an error or warning is generated during execution of a case-style error handler, DECTPU behaves as follows:

•If you press Ctrl/C during the error handler, DECTPU sets ERROR to TPU$_CONTROLC, ERROR_LINE to the line being executed when Ctrl/C was pressed, and ERROR_TEXT to the message associated with TPU$_

CONTROLC.

If one of the case selectors in the error handler is TPU$_CONTROLC, DECTPU executes the code associated with the selector. If the code does not return to the calling procedure or program, DECTPU performs the equivalent of the following sequence:

special_error_symbol := 0;

LEARN_ABORT; RETURN (FALSE);

If none of the selectors is TPU$_CONTROLC, then DECTPU exits from the error handler and looks for a TPU$_CONTROLC selector in the procedures or program (if any) in which the current procedure is nested. If DECTPU does not find a TPU$_CONTROLC selector in the containing procedures or program, DECTPU places the message associated with TPU$_CONTROLC in the message buffer.

Lexical Elements of the DEC Text Processing Utility Language 4–27