From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-05-19T05:55:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Rescue clauses on do/end blocks?

Hi --

On Fri, 19 May 2006, Daniel Schierbeck wrote:

> Austin Ziegler wrote:
>> The main reason that Matz has opposed it before is:
>>
>>  foo {
>>    bar
>>  rescue
>>    baz
>>  }
>> 
>> It does look odd, but I think people will just get used to it.
>
> I think it looks too odd. The do/end and the curly bracket syntaxes are used 
> in different places -- if I needed error handling, I would never use the 
> curly brackets anyway.

I'm not sure I get that distinction -- I mean, I understand that you
do it that way, but I'm not sure there's any generally closer
association between do/end and rescuing than there is between {} and
rescuing.  Also, they're sometimes used in the *same* places, but by
different people :-)


David

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