Re: Safe an quick way to determine context in a C-function

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

> Of course the best thing is to use pcall, as Luiz said. With C++, I
> installed a panic function that throws an exception instead of calling
> exit().

But panic functions are for exactly that: panic. They should not be used
for ordinary flow control.