From: ser@... (Sean Russell)
Date: 2003-06-24T10:22:14+09:00
Subject: Re: [REXML] ParseExtension

nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote in message news:<200306220055.h5M0tkuG024067@sharui.nakada.kanuma.tochigi.jp>...
> It seems tiresome to use.  I guess it'd be better to be a
> subclass of RuntimeError which can be caught by simle rescue.

Hm.  Ok.

> Furthermore, sorry if I'm missing something, you seem to mix
> bare Exception, ParseException and RuntimeError inconsistently.

Do I?  I don't remember conciously generating a RuntimeError; I *may*
generate plain Exceptions, although I tried to be consistent in using
ParseExceptions in the parser... I don't use ParseExceptions anywhere
else in REXML, I hope.

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

Oh, reraising an exception doesn't preserve the backtrace?  That
surprises me, and it's not very helpful.  I'll check on that.

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

Thanks.

--- SER