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General

General
is a symbol to which general system messages are attached.

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  • When you refer to a message with name in On or Off, the text of the message is obtained from General::tag if no specific message named exists.

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Define a general message:

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Define a function that uses the system message when there are too many arguments:

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This is the same as what a system function like Sin does:

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The text is in :

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