From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2006-05-19T03:22:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Rescue clauses on do/end blocks?

Eric Hodel wrote:
> Setting up and tearing down an exception handler for every block
> invocation is going to be expensive.

Couldn't the setup/teardown be done only if a rescue/ensure clause was 
actually present?  It also seems to me that this would mean the the 
setup/teardown would have to be in the block itself, not in the calling 
method.  Thus making it hard to rescue exceptions from the calling 
method (as some have suggested).

For the record,

(A) if it can be done efficiently, I'm for it.
(B) I'm not in favor of rescuing exceptions from the parent method. 
That just seems backwards to me.

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