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exception(...) public

With no argument, or if the argument is the same as the receiver, return the receiver. Otherwise, create a new exception object of the same class as the receiver, but with a message equal to string.to_str.

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/*
 *  Document-method: exception
 *
 *  call-seq:
 *     exc.exception(string) -> an_exception or exc
 *  
 *  With no argument, or if the argument is the same as the receiver,
 *  return the receiver. Otherwise, create a new
 *  exception object of the same class as the receiver, but with a
 *  message equal to <code>string.to_str</code>.
 *     
 */

static VALUE
exc_exception(argc, argv, self)
    int argc;
    VALUE *argv;
    VALUE self;
{
    VALUE exc;

    if (argc == 0) return self;
    if (argc == 1 && self == argv[0]) return self;
    exc = rb_obj_clone(self);
    exc_initialize(argc, argv, exc);

    return exc;
}

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