From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-08-16T13:48:06+09:00
Subject: Re: begin...rescue...retry next?


On Aug 16, 2006, at 12:41 AM, Joe Ruby wrote:

> Logan Capaldo wrote:
>> some_exception_raising_call rescue nil # This is evil
>
> Why is that evil?
>
> Joe
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Cause you can't specify which exceptions to catch with that form.  
Someday something terrible could happen inside  
some_exception_raising_call that you _do_ want to know about but  
it'll just get thrown away by the rescue nil.