From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2003-01-16T06:43:45+09:00
Subject: Re: $DEBUG and exceptions

Matt Armstrong wrote:

> If you look at the ruby source, $DEBUG does only 2 things:
> 
>     - prints out exceptions when they happen
>     - act as if Thread.abort_on_exception = true, even if it isn't.
> 
> If you don't like the first, just set Thread.abort_on_exception to
> true.  ;-)

Ah, I was overestimating the functionality of $DEBUG. I have 
Thread.abort_on_exception = true anyway, so I'll just turn off $DEBUG.

Thanks!