From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2002-08-27T06:20:03+09:00
Subject: Re: warning modifying constant & 'global constant'

On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 06:49:55PM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> |1. if someone attempts to modify a constant, why does ruby choose to 
> |emit a warning instead of a fatal error?
> 
> If it is a fatal error, something like Ruby embedded editor will meet
> serious problems, e.g. 
> 
>   M-x eval-ruby-expression
>   Eval: Foo = 42<ret>
>   bang!

What problems would there be with making it an exception?

I would hope that the embedded editor would already handle exceptions
properly.

Paul