IRB.load_modules Bug?

ruby-talk
1

irb/init.rb contains the following code:

  def IRB.load_modules
    for m in @CONF[:LOAD_MODULES]
      begin
        require m
      rescue
        print $@[0], ":", $!.class, ": ", $!, "\n"
      end
    end
  end

Unfortunately, that rescue does not appear to catch LoadError, at least
on my system (ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i386-netbsdelf]).
Is it supposed to?

cjs

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2

I'm not sure of the intended behavior, but in 1.9 it has...

rescue # StandardError, ScriptError

...which makes me think that LoadError is intentionally not rescued.

I've put the following in my .ircrb...

def IRB.load_modules
  errors =
  for m in @CONF[:LOAD_MODULES]
    begin
      require m
    rescue # StandardError, ScriptError
      print $@[0], ":", $!.class, ": ", $!, "\n"
    rescue LoadError => e
      errors << "\n*** #{e.message}"
    end
  end
  puts "#{errors.join('')}\n\n" unless errors.empty?
end

Regards,
Jordan

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On Dec 3, 11:41 pm, Curt Sampson <c...@cynic.net> wrote:

irb/init.rb contains the following code:

  def IRB.load_modules
    for m in @CONF[:LOAD_MODULES]
      begin
        require m
      rescue
        print $@[0], ":", $!.class, ": ", $!, "\n"
      end
    end
  end

Unfortunately, that rescue does not appear to catch LoadError, at least
on my system (ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i386-netbsdelf]).
Is it supposed to?

cjs
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Starling Software <office-ad...@starling-software.com>
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