Re: [Cardinal-dev] Does Ruby require restartable exceptions?

[Dan Sugalski]

At 6:49 PM +0200 5/30/02, Erik Bågfors wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 18:38, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> >  Here's a question. Does Ruby require that you be able to catch an
> >  exception then restart or resume from where the exception was thrown?
>
> AFAIK no,
>
> What you do in ruby is restart by hand.

Cool. I was worried you could do something like:

try {
   object.method_which_pitches_exception();
} catch {
  resume;
}

and have the resume jump back into the object's method at the place
where it threw the exception. Not having to do that makes life easier.
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