From: Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@...>
Date: 2006-05-19T07:32:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Rescue clauses on do/end blocks?

Eric Hodel wrote:
> On May 18, 2006, at 2:24 PM, Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
> 
>> dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
>>> 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 :-)
>>
>> Maybe it's time we make that distinction. From a syntactical point of 
>> view, they're very different
> 
> parse.y disagrees with you.

That's implementation. We ought to be able to abstract away from that, 
right? Isn't Ruby about the programmer, not the computer?


Daniel