On 7/18/07, Roger Pack <rogerpack2005 / gmail.com> wrote: > Here's another thought. Who would vote for this? > "rescue => detail" catching Exception by default Oh no, it might be a good feature I dunno, but it would be terribly abused... I do not see any obvious advantage that would justify that risk. For what concerns your first suggestion it is a good one, Bravo for a newbie ( you might come from Python ;) but David is right, this is about to be addressed already.... Cheers Robert -- I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby -- Kent Beck