From: Caleb Tennis <caleb@...>
Date: 2005-12-18T07:37:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Rescuing SyntaxError

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> The reason the inner rescue is not triggered is that the exception
> occurs while eval is turning the string into a parse tree, before it
> starts executing the parse tree.
>
> -- 

Sure thing.  Is there any way to catch it though?