From: Robert McGovern <tarasis@...>
Date: 2002-09-19T05:30:14+09:00
Subject: Re: How best to use exceptions?

> If you are using your exceptions to generate error messages that the
> user will see, then this seems reasonable, since sometimes the builtin
> methods don't give error messages that the user can understand.  What
> you have is unnecessary, though, since File.open will already raise an
> exception if the file does not exist or is not readable.

Thanks for that Paul.

Out of interest where did you find that information? I can't find 
mention of that in either pickaxe or the 1.4 reference manual.
It would be helpful to know for the future.

Thanks again.

Rob