[ruby-core:35105] Re: [Ruby 1.9-Feature#4197] Improvement of the benchmark library

Hi,

At Sun, 6 Feb 2011 03:38:48 +0900,
Benoit Daloze wrote in [ruby-core:35103]:
> (If it is an Interrupt, I think restoring STDOUT's sync is not relevant.)

A library should not leave such globally shared states changed.

> #tap is used to return the list of the Benchmark::Tms.
> So, your patch would need to store that list in a variable, and return it.

`ensure' clause does not affect the return value.
So tap trick is not needed here.

> Also, sync would never be nil without ensure.
> This extra check shows "ensure" is complicating things in this case.
> So, I think it is overkill to use ensure here.

Consider the case interrupted during `yield'.

> On IO#sync's subject, I thought once it would be nice to have a block form of IO#sync, which could use ensure.

It's another story, please file new ticket.

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Nobu Nakada