From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2007-10-25T08:03:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem reported in Rdoc (Ruby 1.9) Rdoc for Ruby 1.8 works

Hi,

In message "Re: Problem reported in Rdoc (Ruby 1.9) Rdoc for Ruby 1.8 works"
    on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:19:55 +0900, David Flanagan <david@davidflanagan.com> writes:
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|This looks like the same problem I had.  I submitted the patch below to 
|this list two or three weeks ago.  I've also submitted a bug report with 
|the patch on RubyForge.  The problem is that NameError is no longer a 
|StandardError in Ruby 1.9, so it isn't caught with a bare rescue

Since NameError is for exceptions caused by bugs in the program, I
thought it should be handled explicitly, but this bug indicates moving
it out of StandardError bring more pain than gain.  I'd reconsider
this change.

							matz.