The job server executes the name handleerror from errordict

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2. Pushes that object on the operand stack.

3. Looks up the error’s name in errordict and executes the associated value, which is the error handler for that error.

The default error-handling procedures all operate in a standard way. They record information about the error in a special dictionary named $error, set the VM al-

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After an error occurs and one of the default error-handling procedures is exe-cuted, $error contains the entries shown in Table 3.16.

estack	array	TABLE 3.16 Entries in the $error dictionary A snapshot of the execution stack, stored as if by the execstack operator.
dstack	array	A snapshot of the dictionary stack, stored as if by the dictstack operator.

	array or null	(LanguageLevel 2) If the error arose from an operator that takes a parameter

	array

KEY	TYPE
newerror	boolean	A flag that is set to true to indicate that an error has occurred. handleerror

errorname	name
	any

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