From: Sherm Pendley <sherm.pendley@...>
Date: 2011-02-12T16:36:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Exception that doesn't stop program flow

Terry Michaels <cmhoward@frigidcode.com> writes:

> Okay... this might sound weird (contradictory even) but is there a way
> in Ruby to create an exception that can be caught at any level above the
> point of origin, but /doesn't/ actually interrupt program flow when it
> is raised? In a program I am writing, a certain sort of event occurs
> that I have to be sure to deal with later on outside of the function,
> but I don't want it to interrupt the function because it will leave
> object data inconsistent. I probably just need to write another event
> class and pop this onto some kind of global queue; but I thought I might
> as well ask in case there is something helpful I have overlooked.

Sounds to me like the observer pattern:

  <http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/observer/rdoc/index.html>

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