From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2003-01-16T06:15:50+09:00
Subject: Re: $DEBUG and exceptions

Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> 
> What's the rationale for debug mode echoing all those exceptions to 
> stderr? That makes me want to avoid either using exceptions as a control 
> structure or using $DEBUG...

Maybe it's not clear that I meant *handled* exceptions, as in the 
following. Why would I want to know all the exceptions that were raised, 
unless they were uncaught?

$DEBUG=true
10.times do |i|
   begin
     raise "#{i}"
   rescue StandardError
   end
end

puts "Done!"