From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-02-15T09:18:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:01351] Re: example using throw-catch

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:01344] example using throw-catch"
    on 00/02/15, Tomoyuki Kosimizu <greentea@fa2.so-net.ne.jp> writes:

|I forgot to tell about lib/ruby/pstore.rb as example using
|throw/cath. pstore.rb uses throw/catch so that abort() or commit()
|work completely. If pstore.rb used exception instead of throw/catch,
|someone could rescue exception. As a result, abort() or commit()
|would be incomplete.

lib/find.rb also uses catch/throw to prune traversal.