From: Gennady Bystritsky Date: 2005-06-08T10:05:10+09:00 Subject: Re: I cannot get rescue to work Check your typing, you may have missed ), or end, or begin. Paste the whole exercise, otherwise it is impossible to pin-point the problem. Gennady. On Jun 7, 2005, at 17:15, Assaph Mehr wrote: > > Xeno Campanoli wrote: >> The example on page 108 of pickaxe gives me the following syntax >> error, for >> instance: >> >> ./try4.rb:11: syntax error >> rescue SystemCallError >> ^ >> xeno@linux:~/study/data> >> >> Presumably there is something simple I'm doing wrong. Please make a >> suggestion, as I'm really stuck. > > Can you post the whole file, or at least the context in which this > statement is used? > Kinda hard to catch syntax errors without the code. > >