From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2006-11-28T16:17:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Help me design my exception classes

On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 15:41 +0900, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> Careful... that's a wide net to cast. It will catch Interrupt and 
> SystemExit, for example. StandardError is often (but not always) the 
> right generic class to catch.
> 
> Note that the syntax
> 
> rescue => e
> 
> (with exception class omitted) is the same as
> 
> rescue StandardError => e
> 
> This suggests that StandardError was intended to be thought of as "generic".

Hm, good point, StandardError probably is a better way to go.  I've
always used Exception, but I think I'll go back and revisit some of
those usages now :-)

Yours,

Tom