From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-11-19T14:01:40+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 18711-18810

Hi,

In message "Re: ruby-dev summary 18711-18810"
    on 02/11/19, "Aleksei Guzev" <aleksei.guzev@bigfoot.com> writes:

|Hiding error means one would receive diagnostic message of TypeError while
|the error is not of that type. It's an index error. This will make locating
|bugs harder.

But it happens all the time in dynamic languages.  Why this bothers
you so much?

|Violation means that one calling "zip" will get an exception regardless of
|what method has raised it. It doesn't matter who raised an exception.
|Matters its nature and its origin in the user code(!), not library one.

You can always get the error position in the user code, either in
stack trace in the error message, or in caller information.

							matz.