From: Seth <smarkle@...>
Date: 2007-06-22T13:04:55+09:00
Subject: Why doesn't rescue catch Exception by default?

From:
http://www.rubycentral.com/book/tut_exceptions.html

--- BEGIN
When you need to raise an exception, you can use one of the built-in
Exception classes, or you can create one of your own. If you create your
own, you might want to make it a subclass of StandardError or one of its
children. If you don't, your exception won't be caught by default.
--- END

My question is *why* doesn't it handle the most generalized class,
Exception, by default?  What's the logic behind this?

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