From: Gregory Seidman <gsslist+ruby@...>
Date: 2007-12-06T22:15:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Everyone's favorite flow control: retry

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 06:12:47PM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: Everyone's favorite flow control: retry"
>     on Mon, 3 Dec 2007 14:54:32 +0900, Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@sun.com> writes:
> 
> |Today I was thinking about retry support in JRuby, and figured we've 
> |reached a decision point.
> 
> OK, even though I am not fully agreed with you in some edge corner, we
> see no specific benefit to keep retry outside of rescue.  I and Koichi
> talked about this issue, and agreed to remove it in 1.9.  I guess he
> would do it in a day or two, hopefully.

Thank you, Matz! Even without it being an issue for JRuby, I would be in
favor of this change due to the (IMO) confusing and weird semantics it
presents.

> 							matz.
--Greg