1/*  Part of XPCE --- The SWI-Prolog GUI toolkit
    2
    3    Author:        Jan Wielemaker and Anjo Anjewierden
    4    E-mail:        jan@swi.psy.uva.nl
    5    WWW:           http://www.swi.psy.uva.nl/projects/xpce/
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   34
   35:- module(pce_error,
   36          [ pce_catch_error/2
   37          ]).   38
   39:- meta_predicate
   40    pce_catch_error(+, 0).   41
   42:- use_module(pce_boot(pce_principal)).

 pce_catch_error(?Errors, :Goal)

Run goal, fail silently on indicated errors. If the first argument is a variable, any error will be catched.

   50pce_catch_error(Error, Goal) :-
   51    var(Error),
   52    !,
   53    send(@pce, catch_error, @default),
   54    call_cleanup((Goal, !), send(@pce, catch_pop)).
   55pce_catch_error(Errors, Goal) :-
   56    send(@pce, catch_error, Errors),
   57    call_cleanup((Goal, !), send(@pce, catch_pop))