From: Eric Armstrong <Eric.Armstrong@...>
Date: 2006-08-15T09:10:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Rake: How to *stop* if a shell command fails???

There's one line in there that's driving me nuts.

nobu@ruby-lang.org wrote:
> 
>   def adventurous!
>     verbose, $VERBOSE = $VERBOSE, nil
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>     yield
>   ensure
>     $VERBOSE = verbose
>   end
> 
>   adventurous! {system(cmd)}
> 
What the heck is that line doing??