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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Exception Handling
Date: 2000/05/30
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In article <3HCY4.29157$sB3.10828@news.indigo.ie>,
  "NANCY HEHIR" <nanceh.ennis@tinet.ie> wrote:
> Is it possible to use the exception handler to return to the
> main body at a
> point before the point where the exception is raised?

No. And this is a very deliberate part of the design

> For example: If I prompt for a keyboard input of ,say an eight
character
> string, and a seven char string is actually inputted, a
Constraint_Error is
> raised. Can I use a handling device to return the execution to
the prompt
> for input ?

You can easily program this effect with a loop.


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