Merge pull request #1337 from lheckemann/doc-tryEval

Manual: document tryEval
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Eelco Dolstra 2017-04-18 16:54:37 +02:00 committed by GitHub
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</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.tryEval</function>
<replaceable>e</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Try to evaluate <replaceable>e</replaceable>.
Return a set containing the attributes <literal>success</literal>
(<literal>true</literal> if <replaceable>e</replaceable> evaluated
successfully, <literal>false</literal> if an error was thrown) and
<literal>value</literal>, equalling <replaceable>e</replaceable>
if successful and <literal>false</literal> otherwise.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><function>builtins.typeOf</function>
<replaceable>e</replaceable></term>