From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-09-13T12:25:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Disabling exceptions - thoughts?

Hi,

In message "Disabling exceptions - thoughts?"
    on 02/09/13, Daniel Berger <djberge@attbi.com> writes:

|On #ruby-lang tonight, the topic of disabling exceptions came up.  In Perl, 
|for example, you can temporarily (or permanately) disable particular (or all) 
|warnings via a "no warnings" pragma.  I'm told CommonLisp also has something 
|along these lines.
|
|Ignoring the "is it wise" for the moment, is it *possible* to disable 
|exceptions in Ruby?

Not in the current implementation.  Besides we should define first
what is going to happen on exceptional situation when exception is
turned off.

							matz.