From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-08-01T03:44:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Custom Exception classes

On Jul 31, 2006, at 12:25 AM, Sean O'Halpin wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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]

Are you sure?

$ ruby -ve 'begin; raise Exception; rescue; p "caught"; end'
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-07-25) [powerpc-darwin8.7.0]
-e:1: Exception (Exception)
$

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