From: Mark Slagell <ms@...>
Date: 2000-09-01T07:09:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:4709] Re: Two observations

My eval.rb was derived from the version in matz's tutorial ... I'd better look at the
current one and see what else has changed!  And yes I see now that "rescue Exception" gets
tripped by eval("exit"), which is undesirable.

Where are the subclasses of Exception documented? I don't see it in the lib reference.

Dave Thomas wrote:

> Mark Slagell <ms@iastate.edu> writes:
>
> > Ok, "rescue Exception" gives the behavior I was looking for from "rescue".  That's easy
> > enough.
>
> The latest eval.rb is already fixed. It has
>
>   begin
>     print eval(line).inspect, "\n"
>   rescue ScriptError, StandardError
>     $! = 'exception raised' unless $!
>     print "ERR: ", $!, "\n"
>   end
>
> Regards
>
> Dave