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I copied and pasted, and looked up ssadd, which I had never used before. the code you showed has nothing I see to evoke a layer command to fail with a layer error message. however, it looks like you have (tp) defined as a subroutine, maybe in a setup generic subroutine.

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noun Computer Science A set of instructions that performs a specific task for a main routine, requiring direction back to the proper place in the main routine on completion of the task.

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Obeying a deeply ingrained subroutine, the remote righted itself and looked around. — EBSCOhost
; This is the programm closing subroutine, all other subroutines or funtions will call this to exit the saver — AutoHotkey Community
When I'm optimizing I often use a well defined chunk of work, like 10 requests to the same URL, so I can see of the number of times a subroutine is called "feels right". — Planet Perl
It intercepts the entersub opcode and uses the save stack for storage and to trigger a 'destructor' call to end the timing when the subroutine is exited by any means. — Planet Perl
Consider a statement that calls a subroutine and then performs some other work that doesn't execute new statements, for example: foo (...) | | mkdir (...); — Planet Perl