From: Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@...>
Date: 2014-01-10T09:34:26-08:00
Subject: [ruby-core:59684] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #7688] Error hiding with rb_rescue() on Comparable#==, #coerce and others

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 07:35:14AM +0900, marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune) wrote:
> 
> Issue #7688 has been updated by marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune).
> 
> 
> The method `<=>` should return `nil` for objects that are not comparable, not raise errors.
> 
> So this seems to be a misunderstanding/bug in Rails.
> 
> It might be best to add a warning to Ruby 2.2 if an exception is caught by `==` and we can not intercept it in 2.3?

I think probably a warning would be better than just blowing up in Ruby
2.2.  I *did* know that <=> was raising exceptions before this change
via `ruby -d`, but I should've fixed it.  :-)

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