From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-11-20T21:37:14+09:00
Subject: Re: retry does not work


"Yukihiro Matsumoto" <matz@ruby-lang.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:1069327343.081885.18914.nullmailer@picachu.netlab.jp...
> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: retry does not work"
>     on 03/11/20, "T. Onoma" <transami@runbox.com> writes:
>
> |just as an example of what this could do: tanaka is adding hook into
open_uri to do progress reporting of download. to make it work you have to
pass a lambda that acts on progress. but with resume you could raise a
ProgressException(pos) and resume, which is much cleaner.
>
> Sounds like exception abuse for me.

Definitely!  That's not an exceptional condition, but rather a case for
regular invocation of a callback.

>  You can use continuation if you
> want to do something like that.

Isn't that a bit overkill?  Hm...

    robert