From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2001-07-05T21:58:13+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17289] Re: Inheritance

>>>>> "A" == Aleksei Guzev <aleksei.guzev@bigfoot.com> writes:

A> A) process harware exceptions with Ruby's "rescue" ( I've done this )
A> B) collect hardware exceptions in class MyException
A> C) allow processing of Ruby's ZeroDivisionError and my Int- and
A> Float-DivisionByZero exceptions with single block:
A> 	rescue ZeroDivisionError.
A>     (Not "rescue ZeroDivisionError, IntDivisionByZero,
A> FloatDivisionByZero"!)

 Why not something like this

pigeon% cat b.rb
#!/usr/bin/ruby -w
module MyException
end
class IntDivisionError < ZeroDivisionError
   include MyException
end
begin
   raise IntDivisionError
rescue ZeroDivisionError
   puts "received"
end

pigeon% b.rb
received
pigeon% 


Guy Decoux