From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2006-08-26T08:36:14+09:00
Subject: Re: (again) Rescue clauses on do/end blocks?

Rick DeNatale wrote:
> On 8/25/06, Mat Schaffer <schapht@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Sorry to beat a dead horse, but I still have a question on the
>> optional 'begin' sentiment when rescuing exceptions.  It seems like
>> the standing issue was with the use of it in brackets.  Especially
>> when deciding which exception to catch or adding an ensure.
>>
>> Would this be unreasonable?
>>
>> foo {
>>    blah
>>    rescue ExceptionA
>>      handle A
>>    rescue ExceptionB
>>      handle B
>>    ensure
>>      finish things
>> }
>>
> 
> For one thing, it's syntactically incorrect,  rescue can only appear
> inside either a begin block, or in a method def, where def methodname
> acts like begin for this purpose, or as a modifier on a single
> statement.

Yes, but he's proposing a change in the syntax.

Hal