From: Bob Alexander <bobalex@...>
Date: 2002-03-13T13:43:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Some potential RCRs

"Tobias Reif" wrote:

> > A "message" parameter for "abort".
> > Coding
> >     abort("the program did something bad")
> > would print the message before terminating.
>
> does raise work for you?

It works fine and I use it often. But its semantics are different from
"abort" in that abort does not produce a backtrace, so is more appropriate
for things like parameter errors, file not found errors, things like that
where the user doesn't need to see the program's insides  :-)

It's just that it's easier to code

   abort("program died")

than

  $stderr.puts "program died"
  abort


Bob