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Exception

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Descendents of class Exception are used to communicate between raise methods and rescue statements in begin/end blocks. Exception objects carry information about the exception—its type (the exception’s class name), an optional descriptive string, and optional traceback information. Programs may subclass Exception to add additional information.

Files

  • error.c
  • lib/yaml/rubytypes.rb

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Ruby's exception hierarchy

bquorning ยท Oct 14, 200813 thanks

Ruby's exception hierarchy, according to http://blog.nicksieger.com/articles/2006/09/06/rubys-exception-hierarchy:

Exception NoMemoryError ScriptError LoadError NotImplementedError SyntaxError SignalException Interrupt StandardError ArgumentError IOError EOFError IndexError LocalJumpError NameError NoMethodError RangeError FloatDomainError RegexpError RuntimeError SecurityError SystemCallError SystemStackError ThreadError TypeError ZeroDivisionError SystemExit fatal