From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-03-23T13:20:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Thought  on "abort with message" RCR

Hi,

At Fri, 22 Mar 2002 03:31:41 +0900,
Bob Alexander wrote:
> I'm happy to see the changes in 1.7! Not having seen the details, let me
> just say how I hope it is implemented:
> 
>   - "abort" with no message leaves SystemExit#message empty.
> 
>   - "exit" leaves SystemExit#message empty.
> 
>   - The default top level handler for SystemExit prints the message to
> $stderr unless it is empty, then exits as it already does. (The abort method
> itself does not print anything, allowing programs to catch the exception and
> do something else.)

Looks consistent.  And SystemExit#mesage is not very useful right now.
For the rest, whether "abort" can be ignored or not.

>   - the RCR timidly suggests that it would be nice to have an optional
> message parameter (2nd parameter) for "exit", too. It seems that this would
> be useful and compatible with existing code.

ZnZ proposed same in ruby-dev too.

> >   p $!.status # => 0
> 
> Great. On my 1.6.7, it of course produces "undefined method `status' for
> #<SystemExit:0x2ab8218>".

Sorry, it was 1.7 feature.

-- 
Nobu Nakada