From: Sean O'Halpin <sean.ohalpin@...>
Date: 2006-07-31T16:25:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Custom Exception classes

On 7/29/06, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
> On Jul 28, 2006, at 3:17 PM, Caleb Clausen wrote:
>
> > The following works for me. If you have code that doesn't work, then
> > please post it.
> >
> > class Hell<Exception;
>
> Please don't subclass Exception as a plain rescue won't catch these.
> Use a more-descriptive subclass like RuntimeError or even StandardError.
>
> --
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Hi Eric,

I'm sure that used to be the case but it must have changed around 1.8
(not sure exactly when):

begin
  raise Exception, "oops!"
rescue
  p $!
end
#=> oops! (Exception)

ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-mswin32]

Regards,
Sean