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@@ -334,8 +334,9 @@ raises the exception
will be truncated if it is longer than
that allowed by
.I raise
-(see
-.IR sys-exception (2)).
+(128 bytes in
+.IR utf (6)
+representation).
Control will be transferred to the innermost
rescue block in the same process that
matches
@@ -365,13 +366,13 @@ matching
where
.I pattern
is of the same form accepted by
-.I rescue
-(see
-.IR sys-exception (2));
-i.e. an exact match, or a prefix
-followed by an asterisk
-.RB ( * )
-which will match an exception starting with the prefix.
+Limbo's
+.B exception
+handling statement.
+Specifically, the pattern is a string that matches literally,
+except that a trailing
+.RB ` * '
+character will match any sequence of characters.
If an exception is caught,
.B rescue
executes