From: "msmill (mill mr)" Date: 2012-06-11T16:16:04+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:45562] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6372] More specific error for uncaught throw Issue #6372 has been updated by msmill (mill mr). Good stuff as per usual, thanks. I do hope this kind of thing gets more exposure."stainless steel tube manufacturing": http://jnuecheng.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/background-of-stainless-steel-tube/ ---------------------------------------- Feature #6372: More specific error for uncaught throw https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6372#change-27159 Author: trans (Thomas Sawyer) Status: Assigned Priority: Normal Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Category: core Target version: 2.0.0 I have this method: =begin class Symbol # Does the block throw the symbol? # def thrown? catch(self) do begin yield true rescue ArgumentError => err # 1.9 exception false rescue NameError => err # 1.8 exception false end end end end =end But it was recently pointed out to me that the rescue of ArgumentError and NameError is not good enough b/c they might rescue an unrelated error of the same type. So to make this right there needs to be a more specific error. Perhaps `class ThrowError < ArgumentError`. -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/