From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-12-13T14:37:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28386] Re: Documentation of the different Exception types

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:28371] Re: Documentation of the different Exception types"
    on 01/12/13, "Harry Ohlsen" <harryo@zip.com.au> writes:

|By the way, some of them don't need any further explanation, like
|NoMemoryError, but others are less obvious, like RunTimeError
|(sounds a little nebulous) or SystemCallError.

RuntimeError is an exception reserved for lazy programmers.  You good
programmers should not use this unless you're working on trivial
scripts.

SystemCallError is just a super class of all system call exceptions.

							matz.