From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-07-03T01:24:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17160] Re: RCR: Exception methods (was: Re:  Re: keeping an Exception object alive)

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, ts wrote:

> >>>>> "D" == David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> writes:
>
> D> there could be, instead, something like:
>
> D>    ID array = rb_intern("array");
> D>    /* ... */
> D>    if (rb_respond_to(arg, array)) {...}
>
> pigeon% grep to_ary *.c
[...]
> eval.c: if (rb_respond_to(val, to_ary)) {
[...]

See my response to Dave -- also:

   $ cd /usr/local/lib/ruby
   $ grep '\.to_a' `find . -name *.rb -print` | wc
   52

If .exception had done that, I wouldn't have starting questioning its
very existence :-)


David

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