From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2012-05-17T07:45:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Which exception classes does "rescue" trap?

2012/5/17 Henry Maddocks <hmaddocks@me.com>:
>
> On 17/05/2012, at 9:59 AM, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:
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>> Hi, using Ruby 1.9 I've realized that "rescue" traps more than
>> StandardError exceptions, for example NoMemoryError:
>
>
> Not for me it doesn't.

My fault, sorry, I did a wrong code.
>> But for example it does not trap ScriptError exceptions. So which
>> exact exception classes does "rescue" trap? is it docummented
>> somewhere? Unfortunately I am not able to find in Ruby sources where
>> the definition of "rescue" is.
>
> Google is your friend...
>
> http://jpablobr.com/past/ruby-s-exception-hierarchy
>
> Rescuing an Exception class will also rescue it's sub-classes. This doesn't work work for modules though, which would be really handy.

Yes sure :)

My question is, however: does "rescue" trap any exception class not
inheriting from StandardError?

But don't worry, I'm coding some script right now to discover it :)

Thanks a lot.

-- 
Iñaki Baz Castillo
<ibc@aliax.net>