problem with DECLARE CONTINUE HANDLER

[Federico Razzoli]

I'm using this piece of code in a Stored Procedure:

DECLARE CONTINUE HANDLER
FOR SQLWARNING, SQLEXCEPTION
CALL check_exception();

..and it works. But now I would like to add some statements, so I'm trying to add a BEGIN/END:

DECLARE CONTINUE HANDLER
FOR SQLWARNING, SQLEXCEPTION
BEGIN
CALL check_exception();
END;

This code causes a fatal error. Why? It sohuld be equivalent, shouldn't it?

I'm not posting the whole code because it's very large and contains sensitive information. However, I verified that this change that makes my code buggy.