13A. defining exception handlers (HANDLE/EXCEPT)
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The exception mechanism in E is basically the same as in ADA; it
provides for flexible reaction on errors in your program and
complex resource management. NOTE: the term 'exception' in E has
very little to do with exceptions caused directly by 680x0 processors.

An exception handler is a piece of program code that will be invoked
when runtime errors occurs, such as windows that fail to open or
memory that is not available. You, or the runtime system itself,
may signal that something is wrong (this is called "raising an
exception"), and then the runtime-system will try and find the
appropriate exception handler. I say "appropriate" because a program
can have more than one exception handler, on all levels of a program.
A normal function definition may (as we all know) look like this:

PROC bla()
  /* ... */
ENDPROC

a function with an exception handler looks like this:

PROC bla() HANDLE
  /* ... */
EXCEPT
  /* ... */
ENDPROC

The block between PROC and EXCEPT is executed as normal, and if no
exception occurs, the block between EXCEPT and ENDPROC is skipped, and
the procedure is left at ENDPROC. If an exception is raised, either
in the PROC part, or in any function that is called in this block,
an exception handler is invoked.