From: keiju@... (Keiju ISHITSUKA)
Date: 2002-06-13T15:42:23+09:00
Subject: Re: irb, how to exit() ?


In [ruby-talk:42318] the message: "irb, how to exit() ?", on Jun/12 23:58(JST) 
Jean-Hugues ROBERT writes: 

>Hello,

Hi,

>irb redefines exit() and exit!() so that they raise an exception
>instead of exiting. This is sensible.

irb don't redefine exit!

>... well... I am experiencing a case where I need to exit. How
>can I ? (btw: it is some background thread that will ask to exit)

You can use exit!() or irb_exit_org() which is an alias of original exit().

-- keiju