From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2003-07-22T05:11:26+09:00
Subject: Re: testunit, exit status and at_exit


On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 12:51  PM, Nathaniel Talbott wrote:

> Yukihiro Matsumoto [mailto:matz@ruby-lang.org] wrote:
>> OK.  But you need to help me to clarify the problem.  What if
>> there's multiple END proc that calls "exit"?  Can I choose
>> arbitrary one?
> I was wondering if that would be a problem. For my situation, either 
> of the
> following would work:
>   1. The last exit status that is set wins. So if there are multiple 
> END
> procs, and they all set the exit status (by calling #exit), the last 
> one
> registered wins (END procs are called in the order they are defined,
> correct?)
>   2. Calling #exit in an END proc does nothing, but calling #exit!
> immediately terminates with the given status (skipping any remaining 
> END
> procs).

I expect exit to do just that. I would want the first one hit to exit 
on the spot. Maybe we should add set_exit_code(n) or something 
similarly not confusing?