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

[Pat Eyler]

On Thu, 30 May 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote:

> At 6:49 PM +0200 5/30/02, Erik B?gfors 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.


How would this impact continuations?

-pate (proving that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing)


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