Support custom failure exceptions in the translator
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Description
Currently, if you translate something with a side-condition from `ARB`, the translator produces the code `raise Bind`. It would be nice to tweak this a little to allow an arbitrary exception. For example:
```
val _ = register_exn ``Size``; (* made this up... not sure how it should work *)
val sub_def = Define`sub i ls = if i < LENGTH ls then EL i ls else FAIL Size ARB`;
```
to produce code that calls `raise Size` rather than `raise Bind`.
This requires the translator to support defining exceptions too.
For sophisticated use of exceptions, one must use CF, but for exceptions that correspond to side-conditions we expect to always be true, it would be nicer to just use the translator.
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