From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2011-12-27T16:39:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Kernel#exit raises an exception?


On Dec 26, 2011, at 16:40 , Khat Harr wrote:

> I understand that the stack needs unwound and such, but I was just 
> surprised that exit would raise an exception rather than use a different 
> means of backing out 'silently' while still triggering the appropriate 
> behavior on the way down the stack.

9999 % ruby -e 'def f; exit 1; end; f'
10000 % 

Looks silent to me.

Maybe you shouldn't be rescuing Exception as I pointed out earlier.