From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-03-25T22:59:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:02155] Re: begin/else

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:02149] begin/else"
    on 00/03/24, Dave Thomas <Dave@thomases.com> writes:

|Is there any difference at all between
|
|   begin
|    codeA
|   rescue
|    ...
|   else
|    codeB
|   end
|
|and
|
|   begin
|     codeA
|     codeB
|   rescue
|    ...
|   end
|
|(assuming codeB doesn't throw an exception?)

No technical difference on that assumption.

Psychologically, It emphasizes more explicitly the fact that codeB
would be executed after codeA's success.

In message "[ruby-talk:02151] Re: begin/else"
    on 00/03/24, "Dat Nguyen" <thucdat@hotmail.com> writes:

|In the second case, codeB will be executed anyway no matter if codeA throws 
|an exception or not.

No, that effect is done by 'ensure' keyword.

							matz.