From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-06-22T09:55:47+09:00
Subject: Re: [REXML] ParseExtension

Hi,

At Tue, 17 Jun 2003 02:16:13 +0900,
Sean Russell wrote:
> > I'm courious why REXML::ParseException inherits Exception
> > directly, instead of StandardError.
> 
> There is no particular reason.  I came from Java, and Exceptions are
> higher level than Errors in Java, the reverse of how it is in Ruby, so
> that's how I originally wrote it.

It seems tiresome to use.  I guess it'd be better to be a
subclass of RuntimeError which can be caught by simle rescue.
Furthermore, sorry if I'm missing something, you seem to mix
bare Exception, ParseException and RuntimeError inconsistently.

And, in parsers/baseparser.rb, "raise $!" hides further
backtrace.  This might make debug harder.

Another thing I noticed is that #{} is used inside '' literal,
at parsers/baseparser.rb:144.

-- 
Nobu Nakada