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<HR><H2>Re: Stupid Question Time</H2>
<H3>daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sun Aug 20 22:49:31 1995
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Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 20:48:16 -0600
From: 869683 Gillespie Brandon James &lt;brandon@avon.declab.usu.edu&gt;
To: coldstuff@MIT.EDU

&lt;&gt;    head = buffer_truncate(buff, size);
&lt;&gt;    tail = (| buffer_tail(buff, size+1) |) || `[];
&lt;
&lt; Hmm.  What type is the return from a (|  |) clause when a function throws
&lt; an error?

It becomes the value of error(), and all ~error's test false.

-Brandon
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