From: Aleksei Guzev <aleksei.guzev@...>
Date: 2002-12-16T23:41:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Exception handling


"Robert Klemme" <bob.news@gmx.net> wrote in message
news:atklea$em5$1@ID-52924.news.dfncis.de...
>
> "Aleksei Guzev" <aleksei.guzev@bigfoot.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:atjqle$14urn4$1@ID-167200.news.dfncis.de...
> > Returning to the conversation on the interpreter speed I wish to say
> again
> > that Ruby should not be compared to C++ on tasks like sorting, image
> > processing etc. Take Smalltalk. It was developed as very slow language
> but
> > it lives for now.
> > Because its goal is to control low-level processes, but not to implement
> > them. Thus Ruby should not race with others but should extend its
control
> > features. One of those is exception handling. I like the mechanismus in
> > Smalltalk. The faeature I would like to see in Ruby is ability to
proceed
> > from the next line or repeat the operator throwing the exception.
>
> what about retry and rescue?  dosn't these fulfil your needs?
>
>     robert
>

These don't resume to the operator raising the exception.