RE: HALT without a "trap" view?

From: Martin, Marc <"Martin,>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 10:40:25 -0700

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>HALT(128) raises a "silent" trap.

Perfect! That's exactly what I was looking for!
 
> I've always missed the behavior of the Modula-2 HALT (that is, a
> termination which is not considered an error

And just to correct myself -- my use for this is still when
there is an error, but I have my own error facility which
creates its own error messages, and I can just put a call
to HALT(128) in my error procedures to display my error but
not the trap.

Marc
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