Although I brought up the idea here, I think the suggestion is good enough that it needs it's own thread...

I would like to see a /throwerror command that generates an error that propogrates back to a calling alias and sets $error to whatever is specified for arguments to /throwerror

In addition, an $errorsource identifer that reports the name of the alias throwing the error.

Code:
alias {
  dothis
  goto end
  :error
  echo -s $errorsource threw the error message: $error
  :end
}
alias dothis
  if ($1 == $null) /throwerror No arguments specified
  ; using /throwerror will also stop handling the alias
  echo -s only got here if $ $+ 1 is specified
}

Last edited by NaquadaServ; 16/04/07 01:50 PM.
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