From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2007-12-07T07:25:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Everyone's favorite flow control: retry

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.

I think removing a feature when there's no benefit to keeping it is 
probably a good enough reason...I think it helps tighten a language up.

And I thank you very much for making this change.

- Charlie