From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-09-01T07:16:51+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:4710] Re: Two observations

Mark Slagell <ms@iastate.edu> writes:

> 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.

Well... it's in the book ;-)

However, a sneak peek:


         fatal   (used internally by Ruby)
         Interrupt
         NoMemoryError
         SignalException
         ScriptError
            LoadError
            NameError
            NotImplementedError
            SyntaxError
         StandardError
            ArgumentError
            FloatDomainError
            IndexError
            IOError
               EOFError
            LocalJumpError
            RegexpError
            RuntimeError
            SecurityError
            SystemCallError
               ...system-dependent exceptions
            SystemStackError
            ThreadError
            TypeError
            ZeroDivisionError
         SystemExit


Dave