throw vs the result

[Dar Scott]

On Apr 30, 2005, at 10:38 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> The HyperCard standard for this was to preceed the value with a 
> special string, commonly "Error:". Then your handler just checks to 
> see if word 1 is that string.
>
> put myFunction() into tValue

I suppose this would propagate:

   put myOtherFunction( myFunction() ) into tValue

...so that if myFunction has an error the "Error:" string will be in 
tValue

Dar

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