From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-07-25T18:50:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Add debug to help info

Hi,

At Fri, 25 Jul 2003 18:38:13 +0900,
Tim Kynerd wrote:
> I would also be interested to know what the $DEBUG flag does.

It changes two behaviors.

Reports exceptions at raised.

  $ ruby -e 'raise rescue p $!'
  RuntimeError

  $ ruby -d -e 'raise rescue p $!'
  Exception `RuntimeError' at -e:1 -
  RuntimeError

Exits main thread when any thread aborted by exceptions.

  $ ruby -e 'Thread.new{raise};sleep 1'
  $ ruby -d -e 'Thread.new{raise};sleep 1'
  Exception `RuntimeError' at -e:1 -
  -e:1: unhandled exception
  	from -e:1:in `initialize'
  	from -e:1:in `new'
  	from -e:1

-- 
Nobu Nakada