[ruby-core:57201] [ruby-trunk - Feature #8912][Feedback] Exception#raise

Issue #8912 has been updated by matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto).

Status changed from Open to Feedback

I am not sure if there's significant practical difference between

  raise(MyException.new(:foo,:bar))

and

  MyException.raise(:foo,:bar)

It seems very trivial for me.

I guess you hate to call the function (private method of Kernel) #raise?
Can you elaborate?

Matz.

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Feature #8912: Exception#raise
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8912#change-41813

Author: sawa (Tsuyoshi Sawada)
Status: Feedback
Priority: Normal
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=begin
When we have a custom exception class with a custom `initialize` method whose arity is not `1`:

    class MyException < StandardError
      def initialize x, y
        super("Something went wrong with #{x.inspect} because #{y}, blah blah")
      end
    end

in order to raise it, we have to create a new instance of it explicitly using `new`, and embed that under `Kernel#raise`.

    raise(MyException.new(:foo, :bar))

This is inconvenient, and does not look object oriented. I propose that there should be `Exception#raise`, which is public, so that we can do:

    MyException.raise(:foo, :bar)

A Ruby implementation may be like this:

    class Exception
      def self.raise *args; Kernel.send(:raise, *args) end
    end

This will disallow us from calling the private method `Kernel#raise` (without an explicit receiver) within the context of an `Exception` class unless we use `send`, but I think such use case is rare, and that should not be a problem.
=end



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