From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-05-25T01:49:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Curly brackets

On 5/19/06, Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't think it's pretty, either. But you seem very keen on destroying
> this proposal -- you say you need a way to add rescue clauses to curly
> bracket blocks, and when I present one, you just dismiss it.
>
> I'd like you to be more constructive here.
>
>   1.  Do we *really* need to allow rescue clauses
>       on curly bracket blocks?

Yes.

>   2.  If yes, what syntax would you propose?

foo { bar rescue baz }

or

foo {
  bar
rescue
  baz
}

> Personally, I don't think we need it. Curly brackets don't look like
> begin/end, class/end, or def/end at all; do/end does. I've tried adding
> a rescue clause to a do/end block, expecting it to work, I've never done
> that with curly brackets blocks.

If we're going to have it in do/end blocks, we need it in blocks. Period.

-austin
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