From: MikkelFJ <mikkelj-anti-spam@...1.dknet.dk>
Date: 2001-08-06T04:56:30+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19176] Re: My 1st look @ ruby: No prototypes and problem with String#gsub


"Dave Thomas" <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> wrote in message
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> Mathieu Bouchard <matju@sympatico.ca> writes:


> I don't want to be contentious, and I'm certainly willing to be swayed
> on this issue. Could you give a real-world example of this?

A database operation where Rollback is not supported. Rollback is only
called in case of an error. Errors happen infrequently. The function will
happily run on a lesser database interface until an error occurs.
Then at failure, the database is left in some strange state.

Mikkel