From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2001-10-23T20:38:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23039] Re: Error in Programming Ruby and patch suggestion for ruby

>>>>> "N" == Niklas Frykholm <niklas@kagi.com> writes:

N> It seems to me that the semantics for raise should be that it should
N> take an exception object and a message. Not an exception and arguments
N> to its initializer... because that will only allow exceptions with
N> single argument initializers.

pigeon% cat b.rb
#!/usr/bin/ruby
class RetryError < RuntimeError
   def initialize(args)
      @ok = args[0]
      super(args[1])
   end
end

raise RetryError, [true, "an Array is a single argument :-)"]
pigeon%
 
pigeon% b.rb
./b.rb:9: an Array is a single argument :-) (RetryError)
pigeon% 


Guy Decoux