From: Zach Moazeni <zach.lists@...>
Date: 2010-04-16T02:56:35+09:00
Subject: Re: own exception classes

On Apr 15, 2010, at 1:31 PM, Robert Dober wrote:
> I agree with most you say, but I took the habit to inherit from
> RuntimeError rather than StandardError a long time ago. AAMOF I forgot
> why? Does someone here recall the rationale?

I'd be interested in hearing the rationale too. I actually forget my argument for using StandardError, I only remember running into issues (that I also don't remember) doing

  class MyError < Exception
  ...
  end

I've seen smarter devs than me using StandardError, so I've been in mostly emulation mode :)

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