13. Errors and Exceptions
A Tcl command can return errors for a variety of reasons, such as when it doesn’t receive the right number of arguments, or if the arguments have the wrong form, or because some other problem occurs in executing the command, such as an error in a system call for file I/O. In most cases errors represent severe problems that make it impossible for the application to complete the script it is processing. Tcl’s error facilities are intended to make it easy for the application to unwind the work in progress and display an error message to the user that indicates what went wrong. Presumably the user will fix the problem and retry the operation.
Errors are just one example of a more general phenomenon called exceptions. Exceptions ...
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