From: Devin Mullins <twifkak@...>
Date: 2005-12-18T09:10:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Rescuing SyntaxError

Caleb Tennis wrote:

>> 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?

begin
  puts "this is text
rescue SyntaxError
  puts "Syntax Error!"
end
__END__

No. How is Ruby supposed to know that the rescue block isn't supposed to 
be part of that unterminated puts string from the line before? Do the 
eval, load, or require thing as suggested.

Devin