From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2008-12-04T00:35:55+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby wish list item: more standard rescues

Brian Candler wrote:
> There was a mistake there, the Timeout::Error line should say
> 
>   ["timeout error", lambda { raise Timeout::Error, "hello" }],
> 
> You're right that this isn't a subclass of StandardError and isn't 
> caught. It's a subclass of Interrupt. You can argue whether that was a 
> good design decision or not - but since a Timeout::Error means that a 
> thread was aborted mid-way at some arbitrary point, it's definitely an 
> unusual case.
> 
> There are plenty of posts about why the entire timeout library is broken 
> anyway.

Yeah that one is the the kicker, and it is definitely broken.  Any 
thoughts on making it descend from StandardError? [I want to propose it, 
as some others do...]
Thanks!
-=R
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=1698&aid=21239&group_id=426
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