[plt-scheme] exception handling

On May 16, wooks wrote:
> I wish to execute a command and trap the exception it raises on
> failure - I'm not interested in the exception, just don't want my
> script to fail. After reading about call-exception-handler in the
> docs I am still not clear how to do this.
> 
> I've got (call-with-exeption-handler f thunk) but trapping the error
> with the function f doesn't stop the script from failing.

Using plain `with-handlers' should do that.  (But be careful --
catching all exceptions is a bad idea, since your real bugs will be
caught too; it's better to use this on as little code as possible, and
use the most specific predicate.)

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