From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2007-08-04T01:58:42+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby suggestion feedback

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.
> 
> Regards
> Stefan

Yeah it just gets me that things like Timeout::Error does not inherit 
from StandardError.  I agree.
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