From: Alva <alv@...>
Date: 2001-09-17T00:05:49+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21263] Exceptions and Ruby

Hi,

Ruby 1.6.4

Why accessing out-of-range index in Array or not existing
key in Hash doesn't yield exception? This is definately
programming error, so shouldn't the interpretar aid me
in finding it? Now you probably get something like NameError
sooner or later, when you'll try to invoke method on nil, but this
isn't half that descriptive as say IndexError.

Now this is weird:
"0".to_i #-> 0
"hello".to_i #-> 0

Again, any rationale of doing so? To me 'hello' is very
diffrent from '0', why isn't this treated diffrently?

Sure these aren't that big issues, but I'm curious. And when
can one find list of changes made in newest Ruby (1.7.1 I suppose?),
possibly in human-readable form, not just ChangeLog?

Thanks, and take no offense, I enjoy the language greatly!

Pozdrawiam, Tomek 'Alva' Wr�blewski


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