On Nov 19, 2007, at 23:29 , Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> The new "system" gives true/false/exception respectively.  We thought
> these three should be distinguished.  Returning nil for "not found"
> in [ruby-core:13715] might be an idea.


I would prefer the [ruby-core:13715] method of returning nil over an  
exception.  Sometimes I don't care about failure vs. not found.

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