From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-06-01T04:53:54-05:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:03064] Re: FailureClass?

Quinn Dunkan <quinn@envy.ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:

> Well, since failure is a fundamental concept common to almost all
> methods,
>... 
> an exception

I got the impression that this failure return was supposed to be
pretty universal.

Would you be thinking that a string match would throw an exception on
failure?



Dave