From: uncutstone wu <uncutstone@...>
Date: 2006-05-19T01:26:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Rescue clauses on do/end blocks?

uncutstone wu wrote:
> Ross Bamford wrote:
>> On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 23:55 +0900, Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
>>> I know this has been on the table before, but I really see no reason not 
>>> to allow do/end blocks to have rescue clauses on them, i.e.
>>> 
>>>    foo do
>>>      bar
>>>    rescue
>>>      baz
>>>    end
>> 
>> Just playing Devil's Advocate, what'd happen with this:
>> 
>> 	File.open('somefile') do |f|
>> 	  puts f.read
>> 	end rescue puts "Can't open"
>> 
>> ?
> 
> What if rescue has more than one sentence? It seems not a good idea.
> But I agree with Daniel Schierbeck's proposal.

I think the syntax would be changed as below:
        File.open('somefile') do |f|
	  puts f.read
 	rescue
          puts "Can't open"
        end






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