From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2007-07-19T05:40:04+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby suggestion feedback

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:31:33 +0900, Stefan Rusterholz wrote:

> Roger Pack wrote:
>> Here's another thought.  Who would vote for this? "rescue => detail"
>> catching Exception by default
> 
> I wouldn't. The current behaviour is good. Sadly though there are some
> library writers out there inheriting from Exception instead of
> StandardError for non-fatal stuff.

Probably under the influence of Java.

--Ken

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Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
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