[#43120] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6124][Open] What is the purpose of "fake" gems in Ruby — Vit Ondruch <v.ondruch@...>

27 messages 2012/03/07

[#43142] Questions about thread performance (with benchmark included) — Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas <rr.rosas@...>

A while ago I've written an article entitled "How Nokogiri and JRuby

10 messages 2012/03/08

[#43148] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6126][Open] Introduce yes/no constants aliases for true/false — Egor Homakov <homakov@...>

16 messages 2012/03/09

[#43238] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6130][Open] inspect using to_s is pain — Thomas Sawyer <transfire@...>

21 messages 2012/03/11

[#43313] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6150][Open] add Enumerable#grep_v — Suraj Kurapati <sunaku@...>

17 messages 2012/03/15

[#43325] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6154][Open] Eliminate extending WaitReadable/Writable at runtime — Charles Nutter <headius@...>

25 messages 2012/03/16

[#43334] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6155][Open] Enumerable::Lazy#flat_map raises an exception when an element does not respond to #each — Dan Kubb <dan.kubb@...>

9 messages 2012/03/16

[#43370] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6166][Open] Enumerator::Lazy#pinch — Thomas Sawyer <transfire@...>

15 messages 2012/03/17

[#43373] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6168][Open] Segfault in OpenSSL bindings — Nguma Abojo <git.email.address@...>

14 messages 2012/03/17

[#43454] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6174][Open] Fix collision of ConditionVariable#wait timeout and #signal (+ other cosmetic changes) — "funny_falcon (Yura Sokolov)" <funny.falcon@...>

10 messages 2012/03/18

[#43497] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6179][Open] File::pos broken in Windows 1.9.3p125 — "jmthomas (Jason Thomas)" <jmthomas@...>

24 messages 2012/03/20

[#43502] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6180][Open] to_b for converting objects to a boolean value — "AaronLasseigne (Aaron Lasseigne)" <aaron.lasseigne@...>

17 messages 2012/03/20

[#43529] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6183][Open] Enumerator::Lazy performance issue — "gregolsen (Innokenty Mikhailov)" <anotheroneman@...>

36 messages 2012/03/21

[#43543] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6184][Open] [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.9.3p165 (2012-03-18 revision 35078) [x86_64-darwin11.3.0] — "Gebor (Pierre-Henry Frohring)" <frohring.pierrehenry@...>

8 messages 2012/03/21

[#43672] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6201][Open] do_something then return :special_case (include "then" operator) — "rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas)" <rr.rosas@...>

12 messages 2012/03/26

[#43678] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6203][Open] Array#values_at does not handle ranges with end index past the end of the array — "ferrous26 (Mark Rada)" <markrada26@...>

15 messages 2012/03/26

[#43794] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6216][Open] SystemStackError backtraces should not be reduced to one line — "postmodern (Hal Brodigan)" <postmodern.mod3@...>

15 messages 2012/03/28

[#43814] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6219][Open] Return value of Hash#store — "MartinBosslet (Martin Bosslet)" <Martin.Bosslet@...>

20 messages 2012/03/28

[#43858] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6222][Open] Use ++ to connect statements — "gcao (Guoliang Cao)" <gcao99@...>

12 messages 2012/03/29

[#43904] [ruby-trunk - Feature #6225][Open] Hash#+ — "trans (Thomas Sawyer)" <transfire@...>

36 messages 2012/03/29

[#43951] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6228][Open] [mingw] Errno::EBADF in ruby/test_io.rb on ruby_1_9_3 — "jonforums (Jon Forums)" <redmine@...>

28 messages 2012/03/30

[#43996] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6236][Open] WEBrick::HTTPServer swallows Exception — "regularfry (Alex Young)" <alex@...>

13 messages 2012/03/31

[ruby-core:43977] [ruby-trunk - Feature #5898] raise and Exception#initialize

From: "trans (Thomas Sawyer)" <transfire@...>
Date: 2012-03-31 02:05:31 UTC
List: ruby-core #43977
Issue #5898 has been updated by trans (Thomas Sawyer).


You can reject it, but this will eventually come up again b/c current behaviour is confusing, inconsistent and either overly limiting or not limiting enough depending on which side you come down on.

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Feature #5898: raise and Exception#initialize
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5898#change-25498

Author: trans (Thomas Sawyer)
Status: Rejected
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 2.0.0


Calling `#raise` with a `message` parameter passes the argument on the Exception class' initialize method. But it does not support any additional arguments if the initialize method has been defined otherwise. Nor is the last optional argument, `caller`, passed to the initializer. All of which makes for a rather confusing mishmash of an interface between `#raise` and `Exception#initialize`.

Ideally I would think whatever arguments are passed to `#raise` would likewise be passed on to `Exception#initialize`, e.g.

  class MyError < Exception
    def initialize(a,b)
      super("#{a} and #{b}")
    end
  end

  raise MyError, 'foo', 'bar'

Alas, because `caller` can be passed to `#raise` this causes an error, as it thinks `bar` ought to be the caller array. So unless others see a way around it that I do not, this idealized scenario simply is not possible.

So I propose a second best approach. Notice that if `caller` is passed to `#raise` it is not being passed on to the `#initialize` method unlike the `message` argument. Instead `#set_backtrace` is being used to set the caller. I propose that the `message` argument be handled in the same way, and a new method `#set_message(msg)` be added to the `Exception` class to handle it.

This would then allow the initializer of subclasses to be freed up to be defined in other ways, should a specialized exception be able to make good use of a variant interface Which, btw, is the exact circumstance I presently find myself in for one of my projects. Consequently I had no choice by to define the #initialize method to take an initial blank argument that will almost always be set to +nil+.



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