From: Joe Ruby <joeat303@...>
Date: 2006-08-16T14:23:02+09:00
Subject: Re: begin...rescue...retry next?

Justin Collins wrote:
> Joe Ruby wrote:
>> Logan Capaldo wrote:
>>   
>>> some_exception_raising_call rescue nil # This is evil
>>>     
>>
>> Why is that evil?
>>
>> Joe
>>   
> 
> Because if something goes wrong in that call, you will get no
> information about it. Won't even know it happened.
> 
> -Justin

Yeah, but rescue nil is just usually to deal with null values from the 
database, for example, which isn't a big deal.

Joe

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