If one of the C PL_*() functions in SWI-Prolog.h returns
failure, this can be either a Prolog-style failure (e.g. from
PL_unify() or PL_next_solution()) or an error. If the
failure is due to an error, it's usually best to immediately return to
Prolog - and this can be done with the PlCheckEx() function,
which turns a Prolog error into a C++ PlException. PlCheckFail()
calls PlCheckEx() and additionally throws PlFail() if the
failure is for Prolog failure.
PlCheckEx() calls PL_exception() to see if there is a
Prolog exception; if so, the Prolog exception is converted to a
PlException object, which is then thrown. For more details
on the C++ exceptions, see section 2.14.
- void PlCheckFail(bool
rc)
- If rc is
false, throw PlFail to
return control to Prolog with failure.
- C_t PlWrap(C_t
rc, qid_t qid = 0)
- If rc indicates failure or an error, check for an error and
throw a
PlException if there was one; otherwise, return the rc.
- void PlEx(C_t
rc, qid_t qid = 0)
- If rc is “false” (non-zero), throw
PlFail
to return control to Prolog with failure. This is the same as PlCheckFail()
except it can also specify a
qid_t query ID.
