From: Cliff Phiri <cliffmsg@...>
Date: 2010-10-27T00:17:20+09:00
Subject: Re: error handling: two flavors?

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On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Grary Stimon <grary.stimon@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I recall reading somewhere (can't remember where) that there are two
> flavors of error handling available in ruby: 1) for truly unexpected
> contingencies, and 2) for other infrequent but expected contingencies.
>
> So, I expect a method to return a value, including nil. But
> if the method cannot return a value, including nil, i want it to return
> a result along the lines of 2), above. it's not that i didn't anticipate
> the case that my method might not be able to return a value, including
> nil, rather, if it can't then i need to know based on some indicator
> other
> than nil, which is a meaningful value for my method!
>
> can anyone refresh me on whether there are these two flavors of error
> handling in ruby?
>
> Grar
>
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