From: Avdi Grimm <groups@...>
Date: 2011-02-14T10:43:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Exception that doesn't stop program flow

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 1:54 PM, James M. Lawrence
<quixoticsycophant@gmail.com> wrote:
> I ported the condition system to Ruby after I lost the results of an
> hours-long running program due to a trivial glitch in the input
> data. This Rubified condition system has served me well, though I'm
> sure nobody else uses it: http://cond.rubyforge.org

I'm intrigued. I'm in the process of writing an eBook on handling
failures in Ruby (http://avdi.org/devblog/exceptional-ruby/), and just
this morning I finished a section on alternatives to exceptions. I'm
going to have to play with this... it may warrant some coverage in the
book. I've thought for a long time that Ruby could use to borrow some
of Lisp's condition system.

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Avdi Grimm