From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-12-22T05:48:47+09:00
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: IO.open not calling close in block form?



> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobuyoshi nakada [mailto:nobuyoshi.nakada@ge.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 8:12 PM
> To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: IO.open not calling close in block form?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> At Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:45:35 +0900,
> Mauricio Fernandez wrote in [ruby-core:06912]:
> > What about this?
> 
> It won't work fine if closed? method is overridden.
> 
> I think the original problem posted at [ruby-dev:27156] is 
> which should be honored, a jump from the body or one from the 
> ensure clause.  Currently, this code just returns an 
> exception instead of raising it.
> 
>   def protect
>     yield
>   ensure
>     return $!
>   end
>   p protect {raise} # => RuntimeError, not `unhandled exception'

Perhaps an explicit return within an ensure clause should raise a
LocalJump error.  Or would that cause too many other issues?  It just
strikes me as an odd thing to do.

- Dan