From: Marc-Andre Lafortune <ruby-core-mailing-list@...>
Date: 2010-04-29T01:14:30+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:29855] Re: Is Math module a wrapper of libm?

Unless there is an objection, I will make Math::DomainError a direct
descendant of StandardError (instead of ArgumentError), the same way
that RangeError or IndexError are.

I also think that ZeroDivisionError should be a descendant of
Math::DomainError, but that is less important and should be confirmed.

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Marc-Andre Lafortune
<ruby-core-mailing-list@marc-andre.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:33 AM, "Martin J. D�rst"
> <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> wrote:
>> What about Encoding::InvalidByteSequenceError and similar?
>
> Thanks for bringing these up, I was not aware of these. I'll add these
> to the Exceptions that should be documented [redmine:2829]
>
> In view of this, I'm fine with Math::DomainError.
>
> Remaining questions:
> 2) should it subclass ArgumentError?
> As Yusuke & Yui stated in another thread [ruby-core:28440], the
> hierarchy of errors might benefit in a restructuring. Even when that
> happens, DomainError shouldn't be a subclass of ArgumentError, because
> it might not be caused by an argument at all, like in my example:
> -1.log, if #log was defined for Numerics.
>
> 3) Are there cases where ZeroDivisionError should not be also a
> Math::DomainError?
>