From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-07-05T22:44:14+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17293] Re: Inheritance

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

> In http://www.rubycentral.com/book/tut_exceptions.html written that
> rescue tests objects against specified class with "kind_of?" method.

It tests internally using rb_obj_is_kind_of, but doesn't dispatch to
this method via the "kind_of?" message. ('===' also uses
rb_obj_is_kind_of internally).


In general, I think this attempt to introduce a strange graph into the
exception hierarchy should be ringing alarm bells in your
head. Perhaps there's a different way to do all this.



Dave